Reply #29: The point is false equivocation and scaremongering [View All]

[Nuclear Unicorn]

There is no mutilation involved but circumcision is being mischaracterized as mutilation.

It is not the same as deliberate acts to mutiliate females to deprive them of sex.

So the only thing I can see is the complaint of ritualization.

OK. So you don't like Jewish tradition. So, don't be Jewish. But some people DO want to be Jewish (I hear the buffets are awesome) and since THEY ARE NOT HURTING ANYONE I don't see why they are getting such a bad rap as to be slandered with baseless and wild exaggerations that they are mutilating their sons.

I'm sorry other people's rituals upset you so much. In some societies children undergo ritual scarification and/or tattoos when they're old enough to comprehend fear and pain and remember every little detaail. Oddly, many people tend to romanticize such things. How come Samoans don't catch flak for their rite of passage (read: not of age of majority) with what is deliberately supposed to be an extremely painful tattooing process?