Re: Should female circumcision be legal in the US?
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But it seems like the only arguments for infant circumcision are paternalistic, and I'm not a big fan of paternalism.
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Weren't you arguing that "infanticide should be acceptable" (I assume you meant legal, not acceptable), that children have no rights and that they aren't people? If you don't care that the child is killed, what do you care if they are circumsized?
It's fine to be against paternalism when it's adults treating other adults like children, but all of parenting is "paternalistic" by definition.
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