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- From: c8922369@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Leon James Garde)
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions as a Trivial Issue
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 09:07:26 GMT
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- turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
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- >-*----
- >In article <1992Nov20.142604.21021@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak) writes:
- >> Ritualized mutilation is still mutilation even if it is socially
- >> accepted. ...
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- > mutilate, v.t., 1. to cut off or permanently destroy a
- > limb or essential part of: cripple 2: to cut or alter
- > radically so as to make imperfect [Webster's New
- > Collegiate Dictionary]
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- >Lopping off the glans or testes or clitoris qualifies
- >as mutilation.
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- >Cutting a small piece of foreskin, piercing the ears (or
- >nose or ...), tattooing, etc., are not in the same category.
- >Some people may find them objectionable, including some
- >people to whom they were done as infants. But labeling it
- >mutilation is hyperbole.
- mutilation : to alter .. to make imperfect.
- whats wrong with having a foresking ?
- cant you use your imagination and find somthing good about having a foreskin.
-
- come on .. I'm sure we could make a 'top ten' list, and why shouldn't it be
- taken seriously. you accept the female version can be wrong , in all forms.
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- >> ... And we think we're so superior to "savage" tribes living
- >> in the jungles of third world countries.
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- >How quaint. And how stupid. In terms of ritualistic marking and
- >similar behaviors, there are strong commonalities among people the
- >world over.
-
- Oh, dear. isn't that a rstatement of the sentence above it ?
-
- >Russell
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- leon
-