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> For an action to be a shitty thing to do, someone must suffer as a result Does somebody suffer if you urinate on the grave of a random person who died a hund

> For an action to be a shitty thing to do, someone must suffer as a result Does somebody suffer if you urinate on the grave of a random person who died a hundred years ago? Is it a shitty thing to do?

dustyleary 3y ago
It is a shitty thing to do, but there is nothing particularly special about the fact that it is a grave, or that there is a particular person involved. Society suffers, because people do not wish to be subjected to the sight and smells associated with urination. A cemetery is usually something of a public park, of sorts. Urinating on a random grave is around the same order of shittiness as urinating on any part of a public park meant to be appreciated or contemplated by people. If the grave of the random person matters a lot to you, ask yourself, would it matter if the headstone were not there? Would it matter if you did not know there was a grave there? Every time you urinate on the ground, you are urinating on the remains of millions of people. With every breath you take, you are inhaling the remains of everyone who has ever been cremated longer ago than it took for their burn gases to homogeneously mix in into the atmosphere (which really does not take very long).
JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> Does somebody suffer if you urinate on the grave of a random person who died a hundred years ago? If the intent is to insult a group of people or that person’s descendants, yes. If not, honestly, no. Which is why we generally chase drunk teenagers out of graveyards instead of jailing them.
gsinclair 3y ago
Society as a whole suffers because of the disrespect shown. Every person committing the act you describe edges society marginally closer to a world in which little respect is shown at all. (I acknowledge this is specious!)
djur 3y ago
Nobody suffers, but it might be indicative that somebody is a shitty _person_ who might maliciously or carelessly cause harm in other ways. (Obviously intent matters here, because would we ever consider it "shitty" to unknowingly urinate on an unmarked grave?)

dustyleary 3y ago

It is a shitty thing to do, but there is nothing particularly special about the fact that it is a grave, or that there is a particular person involved. Society suffers, because people do not wish to be subjected to the sight and smells associated with urination. A cemetery is usually something of a public park, of sorts. Urinating on a random grave is around the same order of shittiness as urinating on any part of a public park meant to be appreciated or contemplated by people. If the grave of the random person matters a lot to you, ask yourself, would it matter if the headstone were not there? Would it matter if you did not know there was a grave there? Every time you urinate on the ground, you are urinating on the remains of millions of people. With every breath you take, you are inhaling the remains of everyone who has ever been cremated longer ago than it took for their burn gases to homogeneously mix in into the atmosphere (which really does not take very long).

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> Does somebody suffer if you urinate on the grave of a random person who died a hundred years ago? If the intent is to insult a group of people or that person’s descendants, yes. If not, honestly, no. Which is why we generally chase drunk teenagers out of graveyards instead of jailing them.

gsinclair 3y ago

Society as a whole suffers because of the disrespect shown. Every person committing the act you describe edges society marginally closer to a world in which little respect is shown at all. (I acknowledge this is specious!)

djur 3y ago

Nobody suffers, but it might be indicative that somebody is a shitty _person_ who might maliciously or carelessly cause harm in other ways. (Obviously intent matters here, because would we ever consider it "shitty" to unknowingly urinate on an unmarked grave?)