Well, yeah. I mean, take a step back and forget about religious justifications and appeals to some nebulous 'tradition' for a moment. If I ran around and took a scalpel to the genitals of baby boys without a valid medical reason, I'd hopefully swiftly find myself locked up for a long, long time.
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It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
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But there is a medical reason! It's to make masturbation bothersome. It would really upset the humors you know.
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I'm pissed off someone did this to me without my consent as a baby.
That’s such an understatement but we’re taught it’s normal
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'possible'
Cutting a bit from an unconsenting baby's body. It's insane.
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Good. Stop mutilating babies.
I highly doubt this will happen, unfortunately.
All it takes is certain lobbyists and press saying it's anti-Semitic and/or islamophobic and it'll be dropped in a heartbeat.
Religious extremists need to join the 21st century. It angers me that we did such a great job of shifting away from the church having a stranglehold on our lives and laws, only to then accept shit like this. Freedom of religion should be about believing what you want, not doing what you want.
Fingers crossed, though.
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This needs to go the way of foot binding. It's such an evil practice.
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The UK possibly doing something good? What timeline is this.
Broken clock yadda yadda.
The UK has been doing plenty of good, just look at the workers rights bill, renter's rights bill, expansion of free school meals, expansion of breakfast clubs, massive increase in infrastructure investment, banning single use vapes, massive increase in tree plantations, massive increase in green energy/nuclear projects, big increase in pothole-filling, nationalisation of rail, quasi-nationalisation of steel production, large increases in the minimum wage, restarting SureStart, ending the two child benefit cap, getting closer to Europe again, extensive Ukraine support, etc.
It's just that there's also been a handful of bad things (e.g. OSA and other bits). And we all know what the billionaire-owned press and social media who are desperate to get the Tories/Reform in will focus on.
E: apparently some people hate those things. But I think they're pretty good.
Don't worry, our government will somehow manage to make everyone hate the idea then U turn on it in 6 months.
I don't see how this will see the light of day given sensitivity towards Judaism at the moment. Unfortunately a lot of people think that anything which conflicts a religion has a different standard and that a little bit of abuse is then ok.
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I prefer to cut the pinky finger off of infants instead. It hasn't hurt them at all not having a pinky finger, it's not the whole hand just the tip. And it's not just cosmetic because I dislike pinky fingers aesthetically, it's healthier too, do you know how many people get pinky finger infections every year?
That makes sense, but are you also taking the girls, slicing the webbing between the fingers, and sewing their fingers together, so they don't hold hands before marriage?
YES PLEASE!
Fucking finally!
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