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In the case of this scam, the market for cadavers incentivizes a fraud that is at least economic - the families could have been offered a higher price for the full body. Much more importantly, the Body Worlds type exhibits might actually incentivize murder and neglect, by creating a market for bodies of impovershed people in others' control. That is a very real harm even if the audience doesn't know where the bodies came from.



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