Judge won't block New York City circumcision law

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73. Wait, what?

A "dog pile" means everyone jumping all over me. It's not about feces. As for the discourteousness, you wrote:

"there are many even here on DU who consider genital mutilation to be defensible."

I see this as a fairly direct attack on my belief that circs are perfectly reasonable choices that parents make. You equate circs with mutilation, and by extension you imply that my acceptance of circs means I believe it is ok to mutilate children. Pretty much all of your conversation has stemmed from there.

I have clearly and I believe effectively made the argument that "mutilation" is an inappropriate description of the circ procedure. You don't have to agree with it, but you should at least respect that it is a defensible position. I have avoided using inflammatory phrases, I have avoided trashing anyone's religious rights, I have avoided even suggesting that circs should be anything more than *an option* that parents can make, and should be able to do so without having to defend it, and without having their choice publicly denigrated by those who disagree with it.

Finally, I believe that I have also made the valid point that discussing the overall correctness of circumcision is a total thread-jacking here.