I expressed a similar sentiment in the previous marathon circumcision thread but I'll reiterate:
In however many years it takes for humans to cease the act of routine child circumcision for any other reason than necessary medical, and it's only a matter of time, just like many other abuses of basic human rights, and counting, I wonder how people then, looking back, will view the reasons and justifications that people did it today. My guess is that they will see it similarly to how we today view long-obsolete barbaric practices and rituals. Essentially, ignorance and misplaced beliefs being allowed to take precedence over what every rational and intelligent person, in the 21st Century, should really see and know to be truly morally and ethically correct. History will repeat itself, but people like Loss Leader will find "rational and justifiable" excuses for their ancestors' behaviour, and hence take comfort.
I find it both sad and irittating, indeed bordering on annoyance, that not all people are capable of holding the future view today. Whilst many of us clearly do, many others either do not, or instead allow their self-gratification, however you wish to cut that, to prevail. I can't help feeling that such people, in some way, have in inferior train of thought, rationale or comprehension, or combination thereof. I'm not necessarily criticising them personally for that, but would tend to put the "blame" at the door of the authoritarians who claim to act in the best interests of the people whom they represent, and whose puppy-dog followers faithfully and blindly revere and pander to them, without question. The kind of people such as the "religious authorities" that the likes of Loss Leader "trust".
Oh how I value free-will and free-thinking!
