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To: Outrance

Genital mutilation, which is what circumcision is - male or female - is sick. Doing it to a person without his or her consent, especially when there is no life-threatening emergency present, is evil.

The foreskin is deeply and densely innervated and serves several functions, including keeping the glans hydrated.

It’s not for no reason that you have so many outfits out there specialising in foreskin “restoration”.

The disease angle is pure myth. Sweden and Japan, with their near-zero rates of circumcision are far better off in STD statistics than many countries with near-total circumcision rates. Besides, the kind of risk we are talking about is so low, it is practically eliminated by good hygiene using soap and water.

One is more likely to contract a fatal disease through the consumption of animal products - pork, beef, etc.


9 posted on 07/02/2012 6:34:04 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: James C. Bennett
Genital mutilation, which is what circumcision is - male or female - is sick. Doing it to a person without his or her consent, especially when there is no life-threatening emergency present, is evil.

Well, well, well. Lookie who showed up.

On what grounds do you label anything "evil?" If "evil" exists, it is because G-d exists and has defined exactly what evil is. If there is no G-d, nothing is evil, and your feelings about circumcision (or mass murder) are just a hang-up.

If G-d does not exist, there are no rules. At all. There are only social constructs we pull out of our own tachtiyot. Even your "golden rule" is nothing but a subjective cultural construct, not an objective reality.

The idea that Theism has a "problem of evil" is ridiculous. G-d makes evil possible. Without G-d, objective evil does not and cannot exist. It is non-theistic moralists who have a "problem of evil."

22 posted on 07/04/2012 10:10:40 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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