re: #236 Buck

No it is not redundant. It is a key part of my argument. You dismiss it out of hand without a good reason.

Are you being dishonest? I gave the reason:

Well, then that is redundant, since your argument about a rational reason supervenes on this. If there is a rational reason, then there aren’t many irrational reasons. So there’s no need to bring up organization in addition to the rational reason.

You can’t simply ignore or dismiss it as a bad reason without addressing it.

But that’s all moot since the reason given for the religious ritual of circumcision is not rational. I’m not saying it’s wrong or right, but it’s simply not based on reason. It’s based on tradition; it’s based on religious precepts; but not on reason. And moreover, rationality of the reason is not enough to establish that it does no harm, as I have also explained. So your thesis fails.