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Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by prvc on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:15AM (#31749694)
>This is at most commonplace within a fringe group

If you describe the practitioners of this as a "fringe group", on what basis do you consider the comparison (not even identification) above to a (hypothetical!) "cult" offensive? And do followers of small religions which have been stigmatized with the label "cult" not also deserve the same respect for their beliefs and protection from discrimination as other religions?

Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by natroniks on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:53AM (#31752897)
I think my gripe is the same as all racist comments. Applying something that's true for a small subset to the whole group. If you want to be specific about what type of Jews support this practice, it's a very specific community of Ultra Orthodox Jews. I tend to fall on the side of all extremism being bad, so if someone wants to say the most extreme practitioners of a given religion are bad, then that's fine. But one should not don't talk about Jews as a whole when it is but a small subset within the Ultra Orthodox community.