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To: Bid Buster who wrote (455)	4/24/2003 11:14:12 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 4916

<I wonder what he thinks of cultures that put plates in their lower lips? > Brutal! Or wipe out thousands of acres of tropical forests forcing other people to flee their way of life! Or killing off an entire species for 'recreation' causing untold hardship on the cultures who hunted them? Well, that was a long time ago, and people can change. Hopefully one would give certain groups today that option as well. DAK

To: Bid Buster who wrote (455)	4/24/2003 11:26:28 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4916

I don't know, would you be worried or upset if there was a widespread cultural practice where men were altered surgically so that they couldn't ever experience sexual gratification? Imagine if you lived in a culture where the prevailing notion was to castrate men when they were adolescents? Here in this country sex offenders have been subject to chemical castration (some of which was semi-voluntary in that if you take the drug we let you have X- it's not permanent). I think that a culture that encouraged widespread adolescent male castration would have a hard time assimilating here and most would feel compelled to speak out strongly against it where ever it occurred....I would be the first. I don't think it's a matter of whether or not we understand the practice, it's a matter of human rights. Who knows maybe everyone would be better off it they didn't have any sexual feelings at all. The race might die off but think of all the problems it would resolve right off the bat.