I'm sorry this isn't gaining as much traction as you would have liked. Whereas I found your previous works vitally (heh) important, I just don't get it here.
Why should I care? It occurs to me that 'donating their bodies to science' implies that they simply want to further the 'body' of human research, and they aren't particularly picky or attached to a notion of [traditional, religious] dignity. Hell, if being a crash-test dummy helps study crumple zones, or even minor bumper accidents, isn't that a net positive?
Just to jump your point before you would make it - technology is never advanced enough to replicate meat reaction, so, frankly, if I end up a target practice dummy, and that ends up making less lethal rounds, great?
I assume the response to that will be 'nothing gained' or something a la 'it's JUST target practice, that's all it is!' and I'll counter with this - isn't exploration in other areas more beneficial of your time and effort? It might have a hot 'subject matter', but this really suffers from the same problem as 'not for profit' and 'charitable' donation businesses like Susan Komen, etc - definitions and legislation surrounding specificity.
Very long-winded, but why is this not a chapter in the larger story of getting your state to spell out, through legislation, exactly what qualifies as 'donation'? Or perhaps getting your state lawmakers to identify general 'moral' guidelines about how a business can operate?
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I'm sorry this isn't gaining as much traction as you would have liked. Whereas I found your previous works vitally (heh) important, I just don't get it here.
Why should I care? It occurs to me that 'donating their bodies to science' implies that they simply want to further the 'body' of human research, and they aren't particularly picky or attached to a notion of [traditional, religious] dignity. Hell, if being a crash-test dummy helps study crumple zones, or even minor bumper accidents, isn't that a net positive?
Just to jump your point before you would make it - technology is never advanced enough to replicate meat reaction, so, frankly, if I end up a target practice dummy, and that ends up making less lethal rounds, great?
I assume the response to that will be 'nothing gained' or something a la 'it's JUST target practice, that's all it is!' and I'll counter with this - isn't exploration in other areas more beneficial of your time and effort? It might have a hot 'subject matter', but this really suffers from the same problem as 'not for profit' and 'charitable' donation businesses like Susan Komen, etc - definitions and legislation surrounding specificity.
Very long-winded, but why is this not a chapter in the larger story of getting your state to spell out, through legislation, exactly what qualifies as 'donation'? Or perhaps getting your state lawmakers to identify general 'moral' guidelines about how a business can operate?
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