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These boys died from an unnecessary procedure that should never have been performed on a child who cannot consent. Keep your child abuse out of it.
Culture does not excuse child abuse. If they truly want to go through with this, let them do so as adults with minds that are fully developed.
And you lazily hiding behind pure cultural relativism with absolutely no other explanation doesn't make it not child abuse.
You're the only ignorant one here, you disgusting child abuser.
Lol "western men." Okay. You couldn't sound more like an American man right now defending child genital mutilation. In any event, rambling incoherently about how evil western men are to defend child genital mutilation isn't convincing anybody that your position has any merit, and most people in the developing world would find it weird.
Yeah. I know in the southern hemisphere brushing your teeth can get really difficult too.
Fucking exoticizing fetishizing bullshit.
People not from my culture can abuse children.
They can even, if they're very very creative/completionist or maybe in a different climate, abuse them in a way the culture I'm from didn't. Reactionary fetishization of indigeneity is only very slightly better than instinctive condemnation of a thing because it's unlike you.
Only you’re blowing it out of proportion to support the bullshit cultural agenda you started this stupid debate with. Now you’re switching tracks to make it about health and wellness?
That seems like it falls into the same category as 'protecting your children from all the scary shit on the internet'.
Like, sure, but your action seems awfully severe and like it wouldn't do that. Like the action and proclaimed goal have never been in the same room.
Plus modern western conceptions of pain are bullshit and I kind of think it exists purely as an excuse to abusive authority that can only be justified by the fact pain-fear is the dumbest easiest and therefore most-popular-among-authorities method of control, so physical cowardice has become a kind of synonym for loyalty/virtue. But that's besides the point, I'm sure these infections you're talking about are real and dangerous and not mostly made up hyperbolizing.
If this were about "looking out for their children's well-being," then wouldn't they follow the suggestions of doctors and specialists in the field of pediatrics?
Everything I don't like is racism.
You though, you're totally clear and unpropagandized
No, no, because you see doctors are secretly lizard people.
What's your take on catholic priests abusing children?
That's what you sound like.
The "procedure" you're referring to is, by definition, genital mutilation. Which is intentionally inflicting trauma on a child. That is child abuse.
If they were truly able to consent (which is not possible due to power imbalance), then maybe you'd have an argument. Maybe. But the truth is this "procedure" is for the express purpose of forcing puritanical beliefs and lifestyle into another. So, again, its literally child abuse.
Believing that your religious views override any of this? That's bigotry.
Your “cultural practices” ends when it harms another sentient being. Funny how you also want to harm the animals for selfish reasons by pushing misinformation on the plant-based diet to make excuses to eat the flesh and secretions of others.
The motive might be to prevent harm, but motive does not justify actions. Parents literally used to beat children, to make them more obedient and thereby "protecting" them. Some parents today will prevent their child being vaccinated from life threatening diseases, because in their culture vaccines are seen as bad, and their warped view of medicine makes them think they are protecting their children.
Motive is not justification.
It seems you're very uneducated. Genital mutilation is performed in order to mark the child as a member of an insane cult, and hinder masturbation. This is very well documented by cult "scholars". The "reduce infection" thing is a new excuse made up to fool normal people into tolerating insane child abusing cultists.
Shoooosh!
Shoooosh
Is that why King David ordered all of those foreskins? He was looking out for their genital hygiene?
Lol ok bud.
I think fetishizing and othering foreign cultures, suggesting they're incapable of modern hygeine standards, etc,is also pretty fucking bigoted.
It is child abuse. You only do it because it's always been done before. That's what cultural means. You have No reason, other than, we've always done it, so we can never rethink it. That's what you're saying. Never question the reason. Don't think about if it's right or wrong, it's "cultural" therefore we just do it blindly without questioning. And you, the person acting blindly, following cruel practices, just because they've always been done, thinks you're in the right, and everyone who can think for themselves and question things, is just wrong. You know that's delusional, right.
The culture I'm from is mostly fucked up shit.
Just because it's traditional does not mean it isn't fucked up shit. Could I be wrong because I don't know the context? Totally! But melanin is just color, not inherent fucking virtue. Don't fetishize other cultures. They could suck as much as yours.
The foreskin/glans is self cleaning, if it was this big hazard to our health and safety it would not have evolved.
Tell that to the appendix.
The appendix is rarely a health hazard, it’s just useless. Hence why it didn’t filter itself out.
It's not useless.
Yeah. I remember some of the ones practiced on me.
The practical origins were things like control, degradation, fear. Practical purposes are not always valid or good. Some cultures are fucked up and if everything about them burned it would be an acceptable sacrifice for the amount of bullshit we're getting rid of.
Okay. But Europe and Asia don't do this, don't have a long tradition of this. Do surrounding cultural groups?
What infections? Infections are well within the realm of academia, we study the shit out of infections, and with cis dudes doing most of the science finding, I think dick infections their causes and their remedies is something I would expect a flood of academic material on.
I don't assume they're less than half as depraved tyrannical and shitty as the dumpster fire I fell out of. Sometimes I'm surprised, sometimes I'm not.
Okay but is it? A few of the women in my family, extremely high genetic cancer risk, removed a breast at the drop of a hat, like first hint radical mastectomy being planned instead of any tests, no attempt to save anything. I, not being an insane reactionary defined by a childish trauma response and kind of liking my breasts¹ might take a more measured approach. I can't help but think these kids, these literal children, are not sufficiently informed for these decisions to be made with the amount of cultural inertia behind them.
¹and having anything to lose
If your cultural identity is child abuse, go fuck yourself.
Fuck off with your pedophile procedures.
This guy HAS to be a troll.
I get that it's hard for you to call if for what it is, but it is genital mutilation. There's zero need for it. They can't consent to it.
If you define your cultural identity by the need to unnecessarily mutilate the genitals of children, then your culture is shit and does not deserve respect or acceptance.
Take a step back and consider what it is you're defending here.
No. The bigotry would be not applying that logic across the board; doing it ICC style.
You are engaging in a brand of 'bebevolent' fetishization of 'barbaric' peoples and othering them, applying different values to them than to yourself. This is bigotry, even if it's not hateful. Its genuinely disgusting.
I can imagine someone like you defending some of the things that my culture of origin did to me as a child this same way, and I'm white, so you wouldn't; you'd apply values to me like I'm an actual person, but imagining someone who did? I'd fucking kill them
Its a cultural institution to rape children in TERF islander private schools.
Tell me why this is different, admit you're a disingenuous lying fuck defending sick shit for made up dogmatic reasons you have no understanding of, or admit you're a pedophile.