Exactly so.
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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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Or go on about how "beautiful" it is to cut an infant's penis. Is the practice of "metzitztah b'peh"- once widespread in Judaism and still common among some Orthodox, and also legal- also beautiful to you? Is an old man sucking an infant's bloody penis your idea of beauty?pic.twitter.com/zsGu29z8Vp
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