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foodfightbystander t1_je0fwll wrote

> diplomatic immunity extended to their children MUST be abolished

While it's easy to say that as a knee-jerk reaction, you have to realize that families of diplomats have to have diplomatic immunity. The whole point of diplomatic immunity is so that people can conduct diplomatic duties freely and safely, even during periods of political tension and armed conflict. If that doesn't apply to families, then it becomes simple to manipulate diplomats via their families.

The actual mechanism you want is that foreign officials home countries have the ability to waive immunity in the case of a serious crimes unrelated to their diplomatic role. This is the mechanism that needs to be employed more often, particularly in cases like this.

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foodfightbystander t1_iy3xepl wrote

When I read "Hero leaves the weapon behind", I thought you were going to reference Deadpool leaving the bag of guns in the taxi. In that case, it was because the final showdown in the script was supposed to be a much bigger event, but the studio cut the budget by a huge chunk, so that final showdown had to be cut down significantly. Deadpool leaving all the guns behind was a nod to that change in the script.

Instead of an annoying trope, it's a pretty funny moment.

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foodfightbystander t1_ixr37tc wrote

For those who didn't read the article:

  1. From 1915, they would harvest body parts of late British soldiers, which included Canadians at the time, for doctors to study and learn about war wounds. "Here's what the damage to a spleen from an artillery shell at 50 feet looks like", etc. It was part of a British program to help the doctors learn and treat such wounds.

  2. It was not made public (for obvious reasons) so when it did become public years later in the 1920s, there was an effort to return all the body parts to the appropriate places. In particular, they pulled 799 Canadian body parts out of the archive and returned them to Canada. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who was handling the operation, said it was to potentially create a museum.

  3. Once they got back to Canada, no one was really planning to build a museum, so they were sent to McGill University. McGill said "Well, as long as we have these items, we might as well use them as teaching tools for our medical classes" and did so until the 1960s. By that point, they were treated like any of the medical donations that had outlived their usefulness and they were properly destroyed.

Not really the scandal that it's appearing to be. During WWI, soldiers were considered to serve even past death, meaning if the war effort could use their bodies, it was considered acceptable to do so. Using those bodies to educate doctors how to save lives seems pretty much what most people would want their remains used for.

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