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| You are quite right to call the compulsory circumcision of infants a "horrible injustice." It is clearly a gross infringement of basic civil liberties and human dignity. The issue needs a full public review, so that parents no longer automatically follow an outdated religious code. The fashion for radical body-piercings that began on the West Coast and has swept the nation in the last decade demonstrates that human beings have a great appetite for painful rites of tribal identification. But free will is crucial. In ethical terms, the circumcision of helpless infants is a form of torture and therefore categorically wrong. http://www.salon.com/june97/columnis...lia970624.html |
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Jen
That's just about the only thing Camille Paglia has ever said that I've agreed with....but hey, rock on, Camille!
