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- From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Circumcisions as a Trivial Issue
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:06:07 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- In article <1992Nov20.142604.21021@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak) writes:
- > Ritualized mutilation is still mutilation even if it is socially
- > accepted. ...
-
- mutilate, v.t., 1. to cut off or permanently destroy a
- limb or essential part of: cripple 2: to cut or alter
- radically so as to make imperfect [Webster's New
- Collegiate Dictionary]
-
- Lopping off the glans or testes or clitoris qualifies
- as mutilation.
-
- Cutting a small piece of foreskin, piercing the ears (or
- nose or ...), tattooing, etc., are not in the same category.
- Some people may find them objectionable, including some
- people to whom they were done as infants. But labeling it
- mutilation is hyperbole.
-
- > ... And we think we're so superior to "savage" tribes living
- > in the jungles of third world countries.
-
- How quaint. And how stupid. In terms of ritualistic marking and
- similar behaviors, there are strong commonalities among people the
- world over.
-
- Russell
-