Pictures that say a thousand words

midnight rain · 01-12-2010, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Kayleigh, that's interesting to hear because when I was in Tiananmen square, our young tour guide claimed he'd never heard about what happened there when I tentatively told him about the Chinese government's massacre of protesters.

Taliban followers preparing to stone a woman to death in Afghanistan, 2005:

A person cutting off a baby’s foreskin (“routine circumcision”):

A monkey whose eyes were sewn shut by people studying blindness:

For the most part, those were pretty disturbing. I don't find the circumcision that bad though, it's a normal thing in the US.

FETCHER. · 01-12-2010, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

Kayleigh, that's interesting to hear because when I was in Tiananmen square, our young tour guide claimed he'd never heard about what happened there when I tentatively told him about the Chinese government's massacre of protesters.

Taliban followers preparing to stone a woman to death in Afghanistan, 2005:

A person cutting off a baby’s foreskin (“routine circumcision”):

A monkey whose eyes were sewn shut by people studying blindness:

Those all made me feel sick to the very core. The expression of that womans face was truely horrific. Same with the little guy. The monkey looks so innocent, he doesn't look like hes in much pain, but I still don't like it at all.

storymilo · 01-12-2010, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

For the most part, those were pretty disturbing. I don't find the circumcision that bad though, it's a normal thing in the US.

If it wasn't a common practice, would you think it was a lot worse?

midnight rain · 01-12-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by storymilo

If it wasn't a common practice, would you think it was a lot worse?

No, I think it's a safe procedure. Even if it's arguably unnecessary, I don't think it's a huge deal.

FETCHER. · 01-12-2010, 02:36 PM

I don't know anyone who has been circumcised. It's not normal procedure here. I don't think it should be practised. It isn't natural. In my opinion.

midnight rain · 01-12-2010, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by kayleigh.

I don't know anyone who has been circumcised. It's not normal procedure here. I don't think it should be practised. It isn't natural. In my opinion.

Well most everyone here is. Just curious, but what's unnatural about it?

FETCHER. · 01-12-2010, 02:47 PM

Well you were born with a foreskin. Keep it that way.

storymilo · 01-12-2010, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Well most everyone here is. Just curious, but what's unnatural about it?

What isn't unnatural about it?

Also, I'd say that not most everyone over here is. I don't know the actual statistics but it's certainly less than that.

Barnard17 · 01-12-2010, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Well most everyone here is. Just curious, but what's unnatural about it?

If somebody grows up and says "I want my foreskin cut off" let them. On the other hand, when someone is too young to even know that they have a foreskin you have no right to cut it off just because it's a cultural norm. It's a barbaric, outdated practise. We don't live in the desert, we don't need it, don't do it.

midnight rain · 01-12-2010, 02:53 PM

OK, I just don't see why it's a big deal. Should we stop cutting our hair because if it was really meant to get shorter it would fall out on it's own?

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midnight rain Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,711	OK, I just don't see why it's a big deal. Should we stop cutting our hair because if it was really meant to get shorter it would fall out on it's own?