Some people do and some people think the world is flat. The metric isn't based on what some people think.
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Replying to @Efroymson @opticon9 and
The metric is based on consent and opposition to a ritualized Iron Age practice. The truth is that you would see it the same way were it not for cultural/religious baggage clouding your judgement.
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Replying to @Helioprogenus @opticon9 and
So you also are opposed to marriage, and burial of the dead?
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Replying to @Efroymson @opticon9 and
Marriage is between consenting adults as is burial practices so I don't really care how one exercises their beliefs. What I do care about is permanently altering a body part or the harming of others based on an archaic belief
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Replying to @Helioprogenus @opticon9 and
I’m not sure that the deceased is exactly consenting. Advanced directives are common, but not universal. Also I understood you to object to Iron Age practices simply on the grounds that they are ancient.
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Replying to @Efroymson @Helioprogenus and
You think that doing things to corpses is akin to doing things to babies?
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Replying to @opticon9 @Efroymson and
He's just trying hard to find holes in my admittedly sloppy responses but the bottom line, the elephant in the room, is that ritual infant circumcision is a harmful practice that alters a body irreversibly and would be considered wrong if not for cultural/religious practices.
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Replying to @Helioprogenus @opticon9 and
Sometimes sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking. Further, I’ve argued here, and elsewhere, that circumcision is not harmful. http://efroymson.blogspot.com/2017/12/male-circumcision-is-worthwhile-public.html?m=1 …
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Funny how these are never mentioned when Jews (and other groups) fanatically defend it and demand it be kept legal everywhere, or when they sadistically mock ethicists who eloquently criticize it, and also had it done to them for non-religious reasons against their will.
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