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Old 10-21-2007, 02:22 PM
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Default Re: Should female circumcision be legal in the US?

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Its a cultural thing.

Reading the responses here, one thing comes across very strongly:

We can accept weird Western cultural things, but we reject weird third world cultural things.

This forum is full of a heavy Western bias.

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Not really. East, West, North, South, children should not be permanently mutilated by anyone without a legitimate medically necessary reason to do so, like a gangrenous arm or something. I have little concern about what consenting adults do to themselves, however.

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So a culture has no right to self-determination but a person does?
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