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I think Jews having outsized outcomes in life is pretty well settled. If you're asking for a double blind study I don't have one, but I'm hesitant to throw away
by jquery 9y ago
I think Jews having outsized outcomes in life is pretty well settled. If you're asking for a double blind study I don't have one, but I'm hesitant to throw away thousands of years of tradition. There's a lot of things in life we think we understand well but it just ain't so. Maybe circumcision reduces sex drive in men allowing them to pursue higher goals. Maybe it frees up an important part of the brain for other general computation. I'm only speculating but I think that's fair when most of the alleged harms of circumcision are also speculation. For what it's worth, the biggest harm for myself has been the unending insistence that circumcised people are somehow "incomplete" and inferior. It took me a while and lots of research to realize that the story is far more complex.
- Mithaldu 9y ago> I think Jews having outsized outcomes in life is pretty well settled. This is not meaningful unless you control for social circumstances. Also, for now, all i'm asking you to do is only state things you can substantiate, and state them exactly and clearly.
- jquery 9y agoI think it's on the people who want to ban a tradition going back thousands of years to clearly demonstrate harms.
- Mithaldu 9y agoThere is a clear and very simple harm in: This thing can operate in various fashions. Unmodified it works like this, modified it works in another way. Leave it as is and there's the option for both at any point. Make the decision now and one of the options is forever gone.
- jquery 9y agoSame argument could be used for vaccination.