Should they? Yes.
Would they? And if they did, would it be effective? I have my doubts. Usually laws follow society rather than society following the law. #i2https://twitter.com/gottsled/status/1059262032715882496 …
You know less than I do about Icelandic society if you think they aren't an non-cutting culture. A law limiting age of circumcision would police outsiders. Muslims. Newly arriving Jews.
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Germany is also a non-cutting culture. And yet what happened?
#i2https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/circumcision-ban-overturned-in-germany/article6288050/ … -
It's not an island in the Atlantic. And unlike Germany, Iceland doesn't feel any guilt over the Holocaust. What happened? They had a ban. It was overturned by religious minorities.
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I has all happened before, and, until society changes and collectively decides individual human rights are more important than “religious freedom,” it’s all going to happen again.
#i2https://grapevine.is/news/2018/03/08/catholic-bishop-of-iceland-speaks-up-about-circumcision/ … -
What would society need to change? For most of its history Iceland had no Jews or Muslims, and didn't mutilate the genitals of male or female infants.
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Well, stop pretending like religion is off-limits and actually put the rights of the individual first to start...
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My name and at least half of my genes may be Danish, but I was born in Canada. And you're preaching to the choir, man.
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Hey, just answering: “What would society need to change?”
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(My original feeling was that Iceland should be there already, ahead of the rest of the world.)
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