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Originally posted by tisonlyi
On the female circumcision point.
Religious tolerance?
Should people tolerate this view? Even if i say an invisible lever pulling chap in the sky with a white beard and booming voice told me that this is the way to go? Mais fucking non.
Sometimes, in fact not even sometimes, everytime, people in the first world have the moral responsibility to stamp out the barbarism of other cultures.
If a lady hits puberty and decides they'd like their newly discovered and rather pleasurable clitoris to be crudely ripped from their anatomical make-up, then fine. they can, kinda, make that 'choice'. Past a certain point and age.
A baby certainly cannot.
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1. FGM is not performed for religious reasons.
2. My opinion is that other opinions are as valid as mine no matter how much I disagree with them. If that's how you feel, then fine, but I disagree. I think your opinion is ethnocentric. Does that make your opinion wrong? No, because it's your opinion. I'm holding to mine, and you're free to do the same.
3. FGM is performed as late as 15 years of age in some areas. So some do have a "choice," but if they don't get it their society often looks down upon them. FGM is performed because of social/cultural beliefs/pressures.
"The age at which a girl is subjected to this ranges from seven days old to young adulthood._ Most commonly, it is performed between 2 and 15 years of age."
http://www.fgm.org/TheBasics.html