Circumcision ban getting people snippy.

[scottie]

ElGranCabeza said:

scottie said:

melbye said:
I am glad i live in a country where mutilation of male genitalia is not common practice

Indeed. It's one of those things that, after it gets banned, will be looked upon in exactly the same fashion as the foot crushing thing from China (Japan? I can't remember).

 

If someone wants to get circumcised, they can. But mutilating your own child's genitals is monstrous.

What foot crushing thing are you talking about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

 

The similarities between this and cicurmcision are

-They involve immense pain and suffering for a minor

-They are forced upon the child without its consent

-They are horribly disfiguring

-The justification for subjecting people to both of these, instead of waiting for the people to be old enough to choose for themselves if they wish to be mutilated is that it has to be done young.

 

The difference between them is that circumcision is mostly done for religious reasons, as opposed to secular.

 

For some reason, people seem to be under the impression that monstrosities commited in the name of an imagined diety are a person's right, whereas monstrosities commited for other reasons are monstrous.