Australian soldiers' crime against an inanimate object arouses incredible outrage — more so, it seems, than their crimes that hurt human victims, including torture and murder.

That bespeaks a taboo-based morality, according to which taboos are more important than people, so violating taboos is worse than killing people.

I hereby affirm that, when I am dead, I will not mind at all if someone takes some valueless part of my property and uses it as a cup. Or even my bones. After all, I won't need them any more.

However, I have willed my body to science, so do let the lab have first dibs.