German court rules religious circumcision on boys an assault

[Martinus]

I think only an idiot is incapable of noticing a qualitative difference between a parent educating the child in a certain manner and a parent causing irreversible bodily modification to the child. That's all I have to say about Tamas's posts.

[HVC]

What marti said... only less mean and with "" smilie

[HVC]

One could argue that fixing a cleft lip soon after birth is unnecessary as well, and merely conforming to our civilizations narrow concept of beauty and/or normalcy.

One could also argue that female genital mutilation is unnecessary as well, and merely conforming to our civilizations narrow concept of beauty and/or normalcy.

Hmm, I will now have to find a bigger strawman to bring to this duel.  

i demand honourable mention!

[Tamas]

Religion is the opium of the masses, last king with the entrails of the last priest and all that.

[Tonitrus]

One could argue that fixing a cleft lip soon after birth is unnecessary as well, and merely conforming to our civilizations narrow concept of beauty and/or normalcy.

One could also argue that female genital mutilation is unnecessary as well, and merely conforming to our civilizations narrow concept of beauty and/or normalcy.

Hmm, I will now have to find a bigger strawman to bring to this duel.  

i demand honourable mention!

You could now take Marti's post, and argue if child body modification is worse than parents raising a child to be a Nazi.  Go big, or go home. 

[Richard Hakluyt]

I'm not at all sure that Marti's criticisms are correct 

Why is Pakistan a shithole for example? Is it because of circumcision or a retarded education/indoctrination system?

[Ideologue]

Oh, hell yeah.  Go Germany.  I guess a broken clock really is right twice a day.

[CountDeMoney]

I think only an idiot is incapable of noticing a qualitative difference between a parent educating the child in a certain manner and a parent causing irreversible bodily modification to the child. That's all I have to say about Tamas's posts.

Just because you enjoy lovingly running your predatory tongue around an unnecessary amount of useless flesh as you jam bulbous and engorged shafts into your filthy cocknibbiling mouth doesn't mean parents don't have an obligation to prevent you from enjoying their kids' knobs later in life.

Gotta find a better argument against circumcision than "I enjoy slathering over dick cheese, it's heady and pungent", pal.

[HVC]

You put way too much description into that post. Even Grallon would blush

[CountDeMoney]

You put way too much description into that post. Even Grallon would blush

Yeah, I suppose I did.  50 Shades of Marty.

[Neil]

Germany going after the Jews?  I am not surprised.

[DGuller]

Good for them, there is no reason to keep grandfathering barbarism in the name of religion just because a practice has been in place for thousands of mostly fucked up years.  If there was no history of circumcision, and some religious group today decided to start chopping off the foreskins of children as a religious ritual, we would rightly think of them as a bunch of nutty cultists.

[Tamas]

Yes but then do not allow them priests feeding them children with ritualistic food and drinks of probalby not monitored origin, traumatize infants by putting water over their heads while a bunch of people stand around etc. etc.

if we go after obsolete barbarism, we ought to do a full job.

[Eddie Teach]

Doctors.

[DGuller]

I think only an idiot is incapable of noticing a qualitative difference between a parent educating the child in a certain manner and a parent causing irreversible bodily modification to the child. That's all I have to say about Tamas's posts.

If I were facing a choice of being brainwashed for the first 18 years of my life, and having my foreskin chopped off, I'll whip it out faster than Siege after seeing a picture of a pre-teen girl.  That said, there is no reason to dismiss small victories just because big victories are out of reach.