Well a tattoo isn’t a removal of flesh. So idk.... it’s not quite... equivalent right

I’m just trying to hone your analogy a bit

no its actually very reversable, and less painful

Hmmm what is excessive pressure

but that makes people VERY uncomfrotable to think about

Basically, childhood should be in such a way that when you turn 18 you can scrap it and make entirely new decisions on how you're living your life. You don't have to, you just should be able to. That means nothing irreversible before 18

See I think that’s a new way of perceiving this stuff

And I’m not comfortable with modernity

Just scrap your childhood.. and etc. it doesn’t matter blah de blah

And I don’t see convincing evidence to suggest it’s a better way of perceiving the world

Maybe even the decisions of adults should be guided. Maybe the masses need guidance. Pressure. To some degree.

thats not the point of it actually, its not that is not important, its that ritualistic scaring to bring you into the tribe is less useful than instead forming important bonds within the community itself.

You don't have to scrap your childhood, just saying you should be able to. As in there shouldn't be anything that happened pre18 that will follow the rest of your life wether you want it to or not

Idk i disgareee... for example. Society in America used to be way more centered around Christianity. Going to church as a community etc etc.

And whose to say that existence was worse? Objectively

We’re talking pre 1950’s America

But you are free to ditch religion at any point, you can't turn back a surgery

Of course you are free yes but eeehhh see I’m kinda like bruh all this freedom is kinda.. not going so well

En masse

Christianity wise. and just making an old religious argument here. if god did not want us to have foreskins he would have made us without them. and as we are not jewish we are not offering them to him for a compact long fulfilled

In a multi-cultural, liberal democratic structure

Shai tan that reason can be inversed by saying it’s a choice he wanted us to have to deal with

And history is always worse. Tomorrow is always better, it's been a rising tide. As bad as we think the homeless and poor have it. They have more tech and an easier life than most rich people in the 50's

Well for now

actually it cant be, because the reason for the removal of foreskins is explicitly given in the old testement. that compast with god was long ago fulfilled with the birth of christ in the christian persepctive.

Hmm

Is it a catholic thing mainly

It's symbolic of child sacrifice

I see

It’s like making a lifelong commitment from the start

Interesting

in the west its more modenr roots came from the antimastermation revival of the quakers and the kellogs

Yeah, it's like saying "this is what you are, you don't have a say"

I kinda like that bahaha but maybe I’m crazy dawg

BOOM your in bitch no getting out mwahahahaha

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If the kid doesn't have a religion that requires it. He'll grow up to have ALLOT of questions for you

would you accept the religous head binding of the african continent? or the ceremonial cutting of the middle east?

I’m not quite sure what you mean by that

Oh you mean

Those practices