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| Wed, 04-06-2011 - 12:18am |
Why are we here on this board? We all agree with each other. Routine male infant circumcision in the US is dying its long awaited and inevitable death.
When did we last have a pro-circ point from any poster to consider? I have done my best to invite any parents across iVillage with a pro or undecided point of view about male circumcision (infant or older) to debate with us.
I'm your CL on a debate board with nothing to debate. Some of you will say, again, that we have lurkers who will read and take in our information. But do we do it any better than iVillage's Foreskin Support board -
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Seriously, I do think this board is necessary. As we know, the tides come and go, and at some point there will be people willing to debate this issue again.
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I think there will still be a place for this board for a long time Chris. I think the problem is that in a debate one might be expected to eventually find some common ground on which to agree but on this issue there is really none. Further, those who circumcise tend to believe it can be either or while those who don't are stauntly against it. You'd find few, if any, who believe that it should be universal the way we have those who believe it should be banned.
"There's no appetite for debate.
Please, all of you, consider this fact... and respond."
It's not that there is no appetite for debate but that there is little evidence to use on the "pro" side and people quickly tire of trying to use the same old cunnards.
Still, slowly but surely, circumcision is on its way out. We may not think the pace is fast enough, but it will eventually die. You can't stop progress, you can only slow it down.
Thank you all for your responses. I hope for more from our other
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Kristi, pun apart :smileywink:, I don't have much expectation that the prevailing tide of unwillingness to debate the issue will take a U-turn. If I'm proved wrong, I will be the first to admit it.
Christopher
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I have always considered you my fellow traveller! Online debate is unlike 'real life' debate, where there's a time limit for opposing arguments followed by a vote from a listening, watching audience. Online, the debate is either timeless or withers into obscurity for lack of interest.
I take your comment about common ground, though I would argue that those who choose to circumcise,love their boys no less or more than those who don't - common ground.
Christopher
"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant
"Almost any manmade phenomenon i
"It's not that there is no appetite for debate but that there is little evidence to use on the "pro" side and people quickly tire of trying to use the same old cunnards.
"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant
"Almost any manmade phenomenon i
"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance." Will Durant
"Almost any manmade phenomenon i
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I see one possibility to strengthen our state as a debate board, but it won't be allowed while our posting activity is so slow.
Some time ago I suggested to Jen (our CM) that a companion pro-circ CL would encourage
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