> I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. The problem is that dead c

> I wonder if in another 100 years we'll escape our cultural cage and realize it's harmless to have sex with a dead child after all. The problem is that dead children are not yet public property, so any defilement becomes an issue of vandalism. Even if the child is subsequently buried on public land and allowed to decay into the earth, any aspiring terraphiliacs would then create a tragedy of the commons problem. Of course, if you're Vinod Khosla, you could buy adjacent land, lock a gate, call upon ancient ancestral rights, have your way with the dirt, and tie the case up in the courts for years.