Avatar Roku said:
Chefodeath said:
I'm going to say no just because its a dirty law that will be awkward in enforcement and creates a precedent that gives power to the state that it frankly doesn't deserve.
I am not defending circumcision, I am defending what is a private and meaningful ritual from state interference. Personally though, I find it a barbaric practice and its frankly shameful that its still so widely practiced.
Ok, I usually don't do this, but that genuinely pissed me off. Granted, this won't be the same for every Jewish man, but for me, that is genuinely an important part of my identity as a Jew, and I would appreciate it if you would not call it barbaric.
And I genuinely don't care that it pissed you off, and I genuinely hold that its a barbaric practice despite its significance to you.
This is a practice where a part of a man's penis is lopped off, typically when he is too young to consent. For what reason? Medical benefit? No, not really. Because its socially considered more aesthetic? Doesn't seem to quite justify it. Because the God of an ancient desert people demands it as part of an a blood covenant? Oh...
Look, its like I said, circumcision occupies a place in America that is private, significant, and relatively harmless. For this reason it should just be left alone. That doesn't mean I have to endorse it though, or pretend that it isn't on some level stupid and harmful when really it is.
Its a barbaric practice and the world will be a better place when humanity has the sense to abandon it altogether.