ritual circumcision, sodomy, Derrida

[Dave Monroe]

"I take it you approve of such tactics"?

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> This is actually a gross oversimplification of these
> issues. Pet moral
> principles (i.e. opinions) have absolutely no
> bearing on cultural
> relativism. In one culture female ritual
> circumcision is both legally and
> morally OK. In another it isn't. Is one or other of
> these cultures "wrong"?
> 
> What's interesting is that the derogatory phrase
> "genital mutilation"
> (rather than the usual denotation "ritual
> circumcision") is used in
> societies where the practice is outlawed, showing
> just how far language is
> exploited to construct such "moral principles".

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