>> I guess some will say that's contradictory. But the evidence of widespread opposition to FGM and support for male circumcision is not evidence of hypocrisy, it is evidence that they are two different things.
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Replying to @JamesHeartfield @HPluckrose and
This isn’t a way to address your mistaken claim that there is no harm. Arguing that a defense is unprincipled-but-at-least-it’s-popular hardly makes it better, either. Non-therapeutic genital cutting without consent is unethical. Excluding anyone from that is hypocrisy.
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Replying to @ChooseIntact @HPluckrose and
I think I can decide how I will address the argument.
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Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
You have the right to, obviously. It just doesn't work.
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Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
It doesn't work logically. I don't have my own logic.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @JamesHeartfield and
If you are going to insist that things are ethical if they have widespread support and no widescale opposition, you have to concede that slavery, the persecution of homosexuals & the denial of rights to women were once ethical & still are in some places.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ChooseIntact and
I insist that parents have the right to circumcise their boys, and you would find it difficult to refute me. Their rights are right there, in the law.
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Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
But we are not arguing about what the law says but about what is ethically right and the bases we have for arguing that. FGM has been outlawed in many places because it was accepted as unethical. The same can happen with MGM. Do you have an argument against?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @ChooseIntact and
I think if you are going to make an argument that the law is wrong, and that there is a higher ethical principle that should override the law, then you ought to make it
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