>It's pretty easy for us to rhetorically strut around
assuming our moral superiority, but anybody's who has
seriously studied FGM knows it's a convoluted tangle
of ethical ambiguities.
>
>Consider:
>1. The practices are accepted by, carried out by, and
encouraged by the vast majority of women in these
societies.
DH: So was footbinding, no? ************************** Not to mention, getting the wife to throw herself on the burning funeral pyre of the dead husband--Sati. "Kinder, Kueche, Kirche" is supported by a heck of lot of people in world--even today! So, what are we supposed to do, just accept it in the name of "celebrating diversity"?
Regards, Mike B)
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