(July 3, 2012 at 8:53 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: I'm sure that this decision will be overturned soon enough. No one can deprive people of their cultural rights.
The courts ruled that circumcision amounted to unneeded bodily mutilation, calling it "assault".
Reading through the thread, it seems that the reason for the ruling was that cultural rights < Bodily rights.
Being able to choose for yourself what you do with your wangalang is quite the choice. One doesn't simply grow back foreskin.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
