Banning circumsicion

[Thumpalumpacus]

Cultural mores  may be regnant, but that doesn't necessarily make them ethical.

Ethics are cultural constructs and evolve over time.

edit - I don't mean that in a sassy way. Culture always determines what is ethical. It's the mirror culture holds to itself. But this is off topic for this thread.

How do ethics evolve, if not by the observations of the individuals inside a culture?

Remember, slavery was at one time regarded as entirely ethical in America, until enough people raised enough of a stink that a war broke out. Same with gay marriage, though no war was needed.

The point is, is that this domineering culture is itself made up of people, whose views change over time. Simply because a culture deems something right or wrong is not a measure of the rightness or wrongness of a practice.

It follows that citing majority opinions in defending this or that practice only measures the popularity, not the rectitude, of any cultural more.