It is all about the money same as the alleged genocide #1 get the money #2 Keep the money #3 Do not dig up any graves #4 Ask for more money #5 repeat ad infinitum.
Corpses are not sacred objects. If there ever was a soul in them, it has gone. And while it is highly desirable and practical to be able to take one last look at the person we once knew, it is not essential. And if the corpse has been rotting for some time, the viewing options are negligible, so their corporeal presence is entirely academic, except perhaps for the smell.
There was an earlier time in our culture when corpses were considered sacred objects, which is why the Church wouldn't allow doctors to dissect them. They did it anyway in secret because they knew that the Church attitude was just exercising ecclesiastical muscle against the emergence of a more dispassionate and scientific view of the human body.
Primitive cultures still venerate corpses, but they cannot expect modern non believers to spend enormous sums of money to recover bodies out of respect for values and sensitivities they have long since abandoned, unless of course those demanding the recovery pay a significant contribution towards the cost.
More, the modern state that is being held to ideological ransom over this corpse recovery demand is in no way liable for these deaths. They do not have an responsibility to effect a corpse recovery beyond a budgetarily prudent cost that offers a realistic prospect for success and is arguably likely to produce a potentially significant evidence stream to get a conviction.
Policy in these matters ought to be entirely practical and fiscally responsible in the way public funds are spent. Aboriginal angst beyond that isn't our problem and attempting moral blackmail is not just unconscionable bluff and bluster, but a damned hide that only indulged and narcissistic adolescents would normally attempt.
It is all about the money same as the alleged genocide #1 get the money #2 Keep the money #3 Do not dig up any graves #4 Ask for more money #5 repeat ad infinitum.
Another example of the aboriginal grievance industry at work.
Corpses are not sacred objects. If there ever was a soul in them, it has gone. And while it is highly desirable and practical to be able to take one last look at the person we once knew, it is not essential. And if the corpse has been rotting for some time, the viewing options are negligible, so their corporeal presence is entirely academic, except perhaps for the smell.
There was an earlier time in our culture when corpses were considered sacred objects, which is why the Church wouldn't allow doctors to dissect them. They did it anyway in secret because they knew that the Church attitude was just exercising ecclesiastical muscle against the emergence of a more dispassionate and scientific view of the human body.
Primitive cultures still venerate corpses, but they cannot expect modern non believers to spend enormous sums of money to recover bodies out of respect for values and sensitivities they have long since abandoned, unless of course those demanding the recovery pay a significant contribution towards the cost.
More, the modern state that is being held to ideological ransom over this corpse recovery demand is in no way liable for these deaths. They do not have an responsibility to effect a corpse recovery beyond a budgetarily prudent cost that offers a realistic prospect for success and is arguably likely to produce a potentially significant evidence stream to get a conviction.
Policy in these matters ought to be entirely practical and fiscally responsible in the way public funds are spent. Aboriginal angst beyond that isn't our problem and attempting moral blackmail is not just unconscionable bluff and bluster, but a damned hide that only indulged and narcissistic adolescents would normally attempt.
But then these aren't normal times.....
Marc Miller is a biased incompetent.
He sure is a zealot, that's for sure.
Give them a bone and they will ask for a steak. This is the monstrous entitlement you are dealing with.
Pity that such zealotry could not be extended to all those victims of the Canadian genocide buried in the Kamloops apple orchard.