Violations of a Defenceless Child

    Richard Dawkins:

    Zitat

    Moving from the hypothetical to the real, if you raise the question of female genital mutilation, you can guarantee that about half the responses you get will be of the form "What about male circumcision?" and this often seems calculated to derail the campaign against FGM and take the steam out of it. If you try and say "Yes yes, male infant circumcision may be bad but FGM is worse", you will be stopped in your tracks. Both are violations of a defenceless child, you cannot discuss whether one is worse than the other. How dare you even think about ranking them?


    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-dawkin…_b_5633885.html

    Indeed, as the history of female circumcision suggests, if male circumcision
    were confined to developing nations, it would by now have emerged as an in-
    ternational cause celebre, stirring passionate opposition from feminists, physicians, politicians, and the global human rights community. If routine medical
    circumcision didn't exist today, no one would dare to invent it.

    David Gollaher

    Zitat

    There are those whose love of reason allows them to enter such disagreeable hypothetical worlds and see where the discussion might lead. And there are those whose emotions prevent them from going anywhere near the conversation. Some of these will vilify and hurl vicious insults at anybody who is prepared to discuss such matters. Some will pursue active witch-hunts against moral philosophers for daring to consider obnoxious hypothetical thought experiments.


    So entstehen Denkverbote. Auch über MGM/FGM.

    • Toleranz wird zum Verbrechen, wenn sie dem Bösen gilt (Thomas Mann)

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