Felt the same. Let Anderson be Anderson.  

Issue is relevant to Jews, so I’m mentioning Jews. Deal widdit.  

Oh god, I shouldn’t have ungreyed you before I actually read the post.  Sorry world!  

Sorry, I’m not going down this rabbit hole with you. Take care.

Well, I think the big difference there is that guns were involved in over 43,000 deaths in the US last year and circumcision is non-lethal. So it’s a little bit of a different issue.

No, I don’t support FGM for the reasons I stated clearly above.  

Just to add something to my earlier response because you mentioned abortion. The coat hanger argument is one of the most common put forth when we talk about banning abortion. Circumcision is a religious commandment for some people. Don’t you think the equivalent would occur if it were outlawed?

Because female gential mutiliation carries a high likelihood of pain, immediate and long term medical complications, and psychosexual scarring, or so says the WHO. It also takes place in a FAR different cultural context. Circumcision does not carry these risks and may even have some medical benefits, albeit…

There ya go. And there’s the question of WHY people care. If we all need a sense of who likes to come to these parties, check out this little goober who managed to get themselves flagged for hate speech.

I mean, since we’re discussing outlawing something, I think it’s all about how things legally pan out. Jehovah’s Witness, Christian Scientists and Scientologists might all claim exemption from laws or potential laws based on religious practice, sometimes legitimately, sometimes not. Look, in my view health concerns…

OK, well, good luck with that.  

It really doesn’t.  

The default left of center position as far as I’m concerned is that the world is complicated and that cultural context matters.  Sorry! 

What on earth are you babbling about? 

It’s considered a commandment (not universally binding but still), so freedom of religious practice issues running up against health and safety laws. Complicated thing to dive into culturally and legally, so the opposite of “so what.” Laws should absolutely, positively dictate safety practices so it is not traumatic…

Except it does no particular harm when done right and any such law would specifically target Jewish people. The history there is not pretty. To be clear, I don’t think there’s much rational point in circumcision, but you can’t just pop off about making laws.

If you dare, check out the “Future” art of Frank Sinatra’s Trilogy. You’ll learn some interesting facts about Uranus.

In the sense that the movie would be objectively worse if it played the Shutter Island card in any obvious way, definitely. As Captain Splendid said, the heightened reality that invites a little reading into things is what makes the film cool. 

Nice.  

Well, it’s also the question of whether art requires the intention of the artist to be good/interesting.  Generally I like to respect (or disrespect) the artist, but sometimes things turn out a certain way and are the better for it.  Or an artist sees things are going a certain way and make the good choice to not do…