UKJ wrote:

OrangeDragon wrote:As the impact of male circumcision are becoming more widely known, that's a very arguable point.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/20 ... -standard/

Just like I said in the other thread. You will go to any length to avoid criticizing any culture, no matter how wrong some of their practices are. It shows you are utterly biased.

Not true, I just think if you are GOING to criticize another culture for one of their practices... you shouldn't be condoning/allowing a very similar one in your own culture. Criticize equally, or else you're showing your OWN bias.

OrangeDragon wrote:

UKJ wrote:

OrangeDragon wrote:As the impact of male circumcision are becoming more widely known, that's a very arguable point.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/20 ... -standard/

Just like I said in the other thread. You will go to any length to avoid criticizing any culture, no matter how wrong some of their practices are. It shows you are utterly biased.

Not true, I just think if you are GOING to criticize another culture for one of their practices... you shouldn't be condoning/allowing a very similar one in your own culture. Criticize equally, or else you're showing your OWN bias.

Circumcision isn't widely done in Scotland. And it's completely different as SD said. I've heard of adult men going for it. You never hear of adult women going for FGM! And FGM is new to Scotland. I can complain about it, and shouldn't be told I'm being racist etc.

"I remember I was screaming for my mum and my grandmother to help me"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-24915967

Anyway, two wrongs don't make a right. You have proven again, how far you will go to avoid criticising things that have no place in the modern world.

So then, you didn't even click my link you're quoting did you...

OrangeDragon wrote:So then, you didn't even click my link you're quoting did you...

I did, but I didn't read it all as it sounded biased, and I think any link is tenuous. But the bottom line is that two wrongs don't make a right.

Actually, it went into the actual facts of the situation, from all perspectives, and then debunked a lot of the misconceptions.

I agree with you on that 2 wrongs don't make a right, but if you're damning one culture be sure and damn them both... especially if your claim is that one is contaminating the other in some way.

To clarify, I am circumcised. It was done because a doctor decided to do it and convinced my parents it was 'common practice' and perfectly acceptable, without telling them all of the side effects and risks that might come along with it. It was done without my consent, being only an infant, and is something I'm very displeased with. That's not a news article, a study, a report you heard on TV. That's me... telling you what it's like to have been sexually mutilated from first hand experience. As "important to resolve" issues go, one that's taking place thousands of times a day (if not more) in the UK (as a whole) should be higher on the list than rare odd religious ones... yet it's something that most people just dismiss as 'common practice' or 'better for your health anyway' while being outraged at female genital mutilation and demanding it be stopped at once.

OrangeDragon wrote:Actually, it went into the actual facts of the situation, from all perspectives, and then debunked a lot of the misconceptions.
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When I post a link, it's fake, and I'm being spoonfed. When you post one, you " debunk misconceptions".

UKJ wrote:

OrangeDragon wrote:Actually, it went into the actual facts of the situation, from all perspectives, and then debunked a lot of the misconceptions.
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When I post a link, it's fake, and I'm being spoonfed. When you post one, you " debunk misconceptions".

When you post one it's 90% op-ed and contextual spin. This presented both sides, equally. Then tallied them against one another.

OrangeDragon wrote:yet it's something that most people just dismiss as 'common practice' or 'better for your health anyway' while being outraged at female genital mutilation and demanding it be stopped at once.

No. It's about the introduction of a bad practice. If Scotland was so circumsision ( spelling) free, that most of us had never heard of it, then we would be just as opposed to it as FGM. Our society is going backwards. That's what it's about. There are loads of examples, from new crime trends to welfare costs. Yet people from the other side of the world, make the ludicrous assumption that any comments are based on skin colour.

Anyway.

Ferguson
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OrangeDragon wrote:

UKJ wrote:

OrangeDragon wrote:Actually, it went into the actual facts of the situation, from all perspectives, and then debunked a lot of the misconceptions.
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When I post a link, it's fake, and I'm being spoonfed. When you post one, you " debunk misconceptions".

When you post one it's 90% op-ed and contextual spin. This presented both sides, equally. Then tallied them against one another.

Yes bud. Your links are sound, and mine ( BBC, Sky TV, Al Jazeera, broadsheet newspapers, live interviews, confessions!, youtube cctv) are all made up!