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Originally Posted by Thor
That thread is linked to my friend Dr. Harriet Hall, and it is as out of date and beyond science-based logic when I met her and brought her to Iceland to do skeptics in the Pub in 2014.
I, in fact, sent her a message on FB recently and she still says she thinks that CC of boys is a neutral position, and I think this is a deeply flawed idea as a humanist, and on ethical grounds.
I have not put anything on your plate Trout, you have for as long as I have been here at CP a skeptic, a logical person.
There is no logical or ethical reason to support circumcision of boys. Even if those who have been CCed like to take the default position of defending it and even joking about it, there is really no reason why we should be shocked at the mutilation of girls genitals or boys genitals equally.
Tradition is not an excuse, and those parents who have chosen to CC are not monsters, it is just time we all recognized it is time to stop this for our future generations.
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Jim Jefferries has been guilty of this lately using bad jokes about how turtle necks don't get BJs to justify the circumcision of his son. I also found his recent TV bit in Israel to be very disingenuous. Of course the Jews are going to say they like circumcised better, it is all they know!
Interestingly out of all the offensive things he says this is the only time I have really been offended.