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They're not different: they both irreversibly violate body autonomy for non-medical purposes.

They're clearly different. FGM generally has much more severe consequences than circumcision. They should both be banned but FGM is clearly much worse.

> FGM generally has much more severe consequences than circumcision

There are variants that are equivalent to circumcision, but those are banned as well. It is illegal to cut into female genitals and legal to cut into male genitals today.

To stay consistent people should either support making some versions of FGM legal or make all versions of MGM illegal.

So does getting your kid's ears pierced. So does fixing their teeth for aesthetic reasons.

if those are done without the child consent, yes, obviously they violate their body autonomy.

Have you ever argued in favor of aborting children? That is mutilation without the child’s consent, almost always for non-medical purposes

I would answer, but I rather not, publicly, because of HN privacy policy (nonexistent) and handling of personal data (abysmal), and also because is impossible to delete your comments.

FYI I think you can email dang and ask to delete old posts. Or at least I think he said that once.

You wouldn't fix a child's teeth until well after they can talk. They have much more capacity to consent at that age.

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