Why do defenders of circumcision so often characterize opposing arguments with the terms "rant" and "polemic"? There is no reason to paint anti-circumcision advocates as irrational fundamentalists.

It is part of the inherent insanity of the practice. Those who advocate leaving infant boys alone, and not cutting their bodies without any relief from pain are somehow the fanatical ones.

Those who DO believe in a barbaric, ritualistic, superstitious practice are somehow considered mainstream.

In addition to the specifics of the issue, I find it fascinating how a deeply sick practice can be so embedded as to overturn all logic and reason and even have its own momentum that defies logical debate. Meaning, that those criticisms of the practice are labeled extreme.