Re: Why is it so unreasonable to just wait...
by
eshu21
08/15/2007, 11:04 PM
I think it is pretty disgusting to assign Jewish genocide to the anticircumcision movement. This is a clear attempt to avoid anything like a rational argument in favor of slurs and insults designed to do nothing but stifle debate. In fact, many Jews have serious questions about circumcision; I myself, a Jew, am adamantly opposed to the surgery and utterly reject the notion that my identity as a Jew can only be enforced and transmitted through coercive infant genital mutilation. If that is all that being a Jew means, and if that is what you think it takes to be a Jew, I’d say that’s a pretty sick (and sad) commentary on a great religion, and a great people. Remember, every argument that can be used to justify Jewish genital mutilation can be used to justify the barbaric treatment of girls in Nigeria. Why should Jewish culture be given preferential treatment, and why should Jewish babies not get the same protection all baby boys deserve? Any mark, sign, or loss carved on the body of another human being as a badge of identity in a group cannot morally be performed without the adult consent of the actual person being so marked. Otherwise, it is assault, child abuse - and presumptuous (to assume the person accepts such membership, and at such a price).