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19188, To say the least
Posted by guest, Sun Jan-14-01 10:08 AM
If you intend to address this issue fortuitously then you must eliminate the notion that the act is barbaric or monsterous. My point is not that this procedure is a good thing- but you must at least realize that the context in which it is performed is not necessarily as negative as you see it. Im not saying you need to agree with this custom but you must certainly understand if you sincerely intend to do something about it.

Despite your presumption of how or why they do this- or the demeaning light that is cast down by the moral buearacracy - claiming them savage is innacurate, one fact we can agree to is that in most cases it is done out of devotion to their moral order one that is supposedly offered by Gods or even ancestry- there's absolutely nothing savage about that. To call them barbarians defies the fact that these people are intelligent, cultured and devoted to tradition; to engage them as savages would be to underestimate them. To dispute these traditions on the grounds that they are "evil" would be to place any opposer squarely in the role of infidel.

Many of these customs are intended to quell not just female sexuality but an even larger decline into moral depravity that can be encouraged by liberal (as opposed to restrictive) social traditions. Im not saying that the ends justify the means but in our case- we dont have much place to challenge the ends cuz our culture is plagued by the very thing that they are trying to avoid.

K