Circumcision

[jedusor]

I can't believe this is even debatable. I can't believe that in a society we consider civilized, I have to actually present a structured argument against cutting off pieces of babies when they're born.

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[gerald_duck]

Also, it's not necessary, nor necessarily practical, to convince zealots (of whatever stamp) that they're wrong. It suffices to convince the moderate majority that a thing is wrong and that the wrong is sufficiently harmful that it needs stopping. Then we get a law and the wrongdoers go to prison.

As I mentioned a few comments up, I don't expect that to happen for a good half century or so in the case of neo-natal male circumcision, but it feels like the tide of history is gently moving in that direction, which I regard as positive. Female genital mutilation is a far more serious issue and is already being addressed. Gradually. Too gradually.

That's no more an attack on someone's faith than outlawing bigamy, droit de seigneur, carrying knives on planes, sexual inequality or countless other things that are or have been tenets of one faith or another.