FROM STEVEN PINKER’S The Blank Slate: p. 273
If only one person in the world held down a terrified, struggling, screaming little girl, cut off her genitals with a septic blade, and sewed her back up, leaving only a tiny hole for urine and menstrual flow, the only question would be how severely that person should be punished, and whether the death penalty would be a sufficiently severe sanction. But when millions of people do this, , instead of the enormity being magnified millions-fold, suddenly it becomes “culture,” and thereby becomes less, rather than more, horrible, and is even defended by some Western “moral thinkers,” including feminists.
What is your opinion?
Altering the body for non-medical reasons without consent is never ok. Culture be damned.
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Thanks. Hope things are going well for you.
Nan
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Things are going so well, thank you!
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