Circumcision is unnecessary and barbaric (although def not as bad as FGM) so uh... I find the Icelandic protestors' argument roughly as compelling as if they said child marriage had to be legal for religious freedomhttps://nyti.ms/2EYQcnf
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Can you imagine if this practice emerged now? Even with a different body part. "We have to amputate our babies' earlobes. No you don't understand, it's because God said so"
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
because replace "God" with "doctors" and this is literally how the practice started among gentiles in america/britain in the early 20th century
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Replying to @alicemazzy @sonyaellenmann
it only fell out of vogue there because when the NHS was established it didn't deem it medically necessary, whereas the health insurance model here continued to prop it up
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I mean "now" like "this decade" but you do make a good point
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Replying to @sonyaellenmann @alicemazzy
I really don’t understand this “barbaric” part. Circumcision is unnecessary and pretty much cosmetic (which is kind of amusing when you think about it). But it’s also no big deal and not worth getting emotionally worked up about.
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Replying to @Tracinski @sonyaellenmann
I agree with sonya in that the "no big deal" perception comes more from the fact that this one thing just so happens to be commonplace than that it has little practical impact
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otherwise "don't do cosmetic surgery to children" would be so commonsense a rule it would probably have little cause to be brought up, let alone a "cosmetic _genital_ surgery" qualification
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(more meta, circumcision is one of those perennial forum debate topics less because it arouses strong emotions but more because both sides see their view as mundane and obvious)
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