Even if we can show that a very high incidence of children accept the same religion, political party and football team as their parents and are glad of the modification as adults, the fact is that there are always some who don't and aren't & they should have individual freedom.
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Whataboutism is not a fair basis for dismissing an argument about proportion. It’s a basis for dismissing an argument about equivalence.
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If you want to deal with proportionality, estimates are 200 million women worldwide with some form of FGM, and 30%, roughly 1.15 billion, men circumcised. If we want to talk equivalence, there are types of FGM demonstrably less invasive and damaging than circumcision, namely>>
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2> types 1A (hoodectomy) and many of the subtypes of 4, (pricking, nicking, scraping) but these are still just as illegal as the worst, type 3 which is less than 4% of all FGM worldwide.
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