Cultural mores are a powerful thing. Honestly the sheer amount of cultural cognitive dissonance around the practice was seriously eye-opening on the subject of

Cultural mores are a powerful thing. Honestly the sheer amount of cultural cognitive dissonance around the practice was seriously eye-opening on the subject of human irrationality. For instance, my mother is aghast at the prospect of clipping a dog's ears or docking it's tail. And yet, when it came to the birth of her sons the same sense of ethics never registered about circumcision.