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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.
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.
You're the only ignorant one here, you disgusting child abuser.
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.