If you had to deal with the legal history around the link between bans on circumcision & anti-semitism, you’d struggle, even though circumcision is your hobby-horse. Noting, of course, that the hoaxers had no particular hobby-horse & scattered their papers across several fields.
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That's true, I would certainly have struggled if that were the focus of my paper. This gives me a better idea of what you were referring to in terms of the degree or kind of unrelatedness of discipline.
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The legal history is the reason why you are not winning this argument & will likely never win it. I’ve read a lot of your papers & I like Robert’s work, but the use of bans on circumcision to attack Jews looms large; it goes back to the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 AD.
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I don't call for a ban, and have explicitly argued against doing so in various venues. Most of my work presents moral arguments that I hope people will find persuasive. I'm not sure what measure you are using for 'winning this argument' though I must say
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It’s just as well you don’t call for a ban, shall we say.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @briandavidearp and
History can't be used to justify children mutilation.
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Replying to @pammalamma @terraxa1 and
Yeah looks like we’ve attracted nutters & that’s probably my fault. I’ve already blocked one. Sorry everyone.
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Replying to @_HelenDale @terraxa1 and
I will just continue to block them. In general I am strongly in favor of religious freedom and free speech.
I have one son who was circed at ten months and it was beneficial to his health: solved a problem.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @pammalamma @terraxa1 and
Look I probably shouldn’t have pinged Brian on that topic because it does attract nutters. Wasn’t thinking.
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No worries, I'm used to having to fend off/ ignore unproductive comments about this topic ... it's tiring, but after a while it becomes routine ...
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Replying to @briandavidearp @pammalamma and
Apologies for kicking it off. You didn’t this time, it was me.
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