XPost: uk.legal, soc.culture.irish, soc.women   
   XPost: alt.religion.druid   
   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   GB wrote:   
   > On 20/09/2012 17:32, Norman Wells wrote:   
   >> GB wrote:   
   >>> On 20/09/2012 14:27, Norman Wells wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>> It isn't.  In the   
   >>>>>> main, it's done simply because parents want to mutilate their   
   >>>>>> children to impose their will on them.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> What baloney. And your source for this is?  Your fevered   
   >>>>> imagination?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sources aren't required for statements of obvious truth.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And it's the obvious truth for the vast majority of all   
   >>>> circumcisions performed in the cause of religion or 'culture'.   
   >>>   
   >>> It's obviously untrue that "it's done simply because parents want to   
   >>> impose their will on them."   
   >>   
   >> Who else is pushing it and imposing it on their own children ?   
   >>   
   >   
   > So, you accept that it is not done simply to impose their will?   
      
   Of course it is.  Otherwise they'd leave it until the child is competent   
   to decide for himself.   
      
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