As some may know, there's a whole furor in San Francisco over penises. This may seem unsurprising given that it is San Francisco, except that in this case the furor is over circumcision. A man named Hess has been advocating banning circumcision of men, which is opposed by both Jews and Muslims in the city. As well it should be, for such a ban is a
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The people who greenlit this actually agree with the message in itand San Francisco is not as liberal, tolerant, and evolved as it's credited to be.
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Since this forum is mostly inhabited by liberals of all stripes, my query is this: Is anti circumcision to be the next great liberal cause?
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The practice of circumcision is a vestige of slavery. Just as the slave master has control over the body of the slave, the parent has control over the body of the child. When Abraham was enslaved by an alien deity, he was force to sacrifice his wholeness and the wholeness of his children for generations to come. From a political perspective, circumcision is evidence of continued Egyptian hegemony in Jewish culture. I associate it more with Pharaoh than with a higher power.
There are Jews who recognize the barbarity of the ritual and oppose the practice.
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At which point they are old enough that you can't reasonably refuse them the right to make the decision themselves, regardless of life experience or maturity.
If they are old enough to be having sex and making babies surely they're old enough to be deciding whether or not to chop bits of themselves off.
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There are many of us who do consider circumcision a practice that DOES violate the rights of a baby (who cannot consent to having his genitalia modified). Therefore, religion does not excuse this practice.
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There are many things that we now consider "violent" no matter the manner in which they are conducted. Good intentions behind a particular act do not neutralize the otherwise violent nature of that conduct.
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