Re: violence...

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• "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> wrote:
  > Eugene Leitl wrote,
  > >This treatment is absolutely untypical. Thanks to
  > the animal rights
  > >activist movement and USDA the animals usually
  > enjoy much better
  > >protection (in civilized countries) animal research
  > facilities than
  > >human patients ever hope to experience.
  >
  > Well then, if human patients (baby boys in the case
  > of male genital mutilation)
  > cannot hope to experience protection as good as that
  > provided to animals, that
  > supports my contention that this instance of
  > violence toward men and masculinity
  > (amputating the prepuce) exemplifies hatred (or at
  > best, indifference) toward
  > male sexuality. The absence of any research studies
  > to determine the
  > psychological effects of circumcision provides
  > further evidence of aversion to
  > the subject of men's issues.
  >
  > --J. R.
  

Actually, I think this is just a case of tradition being very hard to overcome.

Mob rule isn't any prettier merely because the mob calls itself a government.

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