Would you be ok with female circumcision being allowed too? To define what I mean, I mean the analogous operation of removing the clitoral hood of a little girl. You think that's alright? If it was someone's "fundamental rite"?

Bodily autonomy is a fundamental right. Rights > rites.

It is totally OK for an adult to choose to be circumcised. It is not OK to do that to babies.

We should not change body parts of persons that are not capable of consenting to that. Why not wait until someone is capable of taking those decisions by themself instead of imposing them and on top of that risking their health while doing so?

At some point we need to accept that in a relfrespecting society health and free will must prevail over any practice that infringes on them.

Circumcision is fine I guess. What’s weird is when it’s not done in a proper setting (hospital) but in a ritual and by some person who is not a medically licensed. Another thing that we should all have a problem with is the non consenting age of 0. Ultimately, at least hire a doctor and do it in sanitary conditions.

> Circumcision is an absolutely fundamental rite of Judaism.

Offering animal sacrifices in the temple was once an absolutely fundamental rite of Judaism. And that changed. At times, halachic scholarship/philosophy/politics reaches decisions that some commandments (mitzvot) can be followed/maintained symbolically, or semi-symbolically rather than literally. It is conceivable this may happen with circumcision. I mean, the point of circumcision is to signify the covenant of Jehovah with Jews (or with Abraham); it is not the lack-of-foreskin that is the point.

> Every Jewish male is circumcised, as far as I know

You know wrong. Some - not many, but some - Israeli Jewish parents eschew circumcision.

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