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Male circumcision is an ancient practice and generally accepted one that offers some salutary health benefits.

Female circumcision is outright genital mutilation that serves no purpose whatsoever aside from inflicting pain and humiliation on its victims (it's a fairly common practice with young girls in certain parts of Africa)

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lol, I'm glad your Catholic teachers taught you well.

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Do you not see his views on these two things as obviously biased? I mean clearly, female circumcision to some is an ancient practice and generally one that offers some salutary health benefits.

And to some, like me, male circumcision is outright genital mutilation that serves no purpose whatsoever.

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OK, but this a matter of the degree of the mutilation taking place, with the female mutilation by any rational investigation, much, much worse. And, what 'salutary health benefits' are there in the female mutilation, not 'claimed' benefits, real clinically proven benefits?

Further, how is his argument in any way related to the Catholic Church?

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What's the difference between claimed and real benefits? Obviously the elders or whatever in Africa says it will prevent the girls from having sex for fun or such. It's clearly still a violation of their rights.

The Catholic remark had to do with his title and avatar.

Vaccinations don't mutilate you. I don't consider circumcision at birth a health treatment. Obviously, a parent can choose that option if there is a health reason for it. Sort of like, obviously a woman can abort if there is a health reason for it.

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Well yea, I guess I agree with you, my only point was that it does not matter to me what the 'elders' of some stone age village think, the two 'procedures' are leagues apart in the amount of mutilating going on. One 'procedure' is objectively cruel and inhuman, the other may be also, but to a lesser degree. One is not just the opposite gender equivalent of the other.

Also, in the avatar he may be using the term catholic in the small 'c' definition of the word, meaning "universal", you know 'universal all star.'