Well, with all due respect, AAA... If you don't follow domestic UK news, how can you form an adequate judgement on the matters that you're offering opinions on? You may (or may not) want to take my word for it, but I can only repeat what I said previously. You are mistaken.
I would sign this petition. While I understand the subject is controversial, I don't really see why I should be telling other people that their customs, no matter how barbaric in my subjective view, are wrong.
whoa. the article doesn't mention it but you wouldn't sign that if it was to protect that practice in your own country, right? I agree that what they do in bumfuckistan is no one's business except bumfuckistanis, but what they do once they immigrate to another nation, like the UK, is subject to your laws.
Thanks for making my point. I guess you also support slavery, after all, it was a custom of other people. Who are you to say it was wrong?
If there is a law in my country against this practice, I would not sign it. If there is no law, I see no reason why I shouldn't. My understanding of the context is that this is about FGM globally, rather than in the UK. Again, I appreciate that this is a difficult issue, but I really have a problem with the totally subjective nature of these things.
It's complicated, isn't it? In the case of slavery I would probably have to think long and hard about the specific circumstances. What if the petition in question was about the support for the "barbaric" American custom of possessing firearms?
I assumed you were just having us on. No one could actually be that intoxicated by multiculturalist concepts of moral equivalency. You can sign all the anti-gun petitions you want. We'll be stocking up on AR's, Glocks, S&W's, tac shotguns and ammo. Good luck with that petition when the SHTF.
So let's say the local UK Muslims wants to cut your head off, what with that being their custom in how they treat infidels and all. You gonna sign that petition too?
Erm, you're confused, AAA... I am on your side in this, but I believe in applying this logic in a consistent fashion. Specifically, I believe that it's your inalienable and fundamental right as a society to make your own laws and to abide by them. So if the law of your land permits you to stock up on ARs, Glocks etc, I don't think that I should have the right to tell you that it's "wrong" and shouldn't be allowed, regardless of what my personal views on the matter might be. If you apply this logic consistently, I don't see why I should be telling women in Africa (or Jews all over the world, for that matter) that their customs are "barbaric" and should be stopped. "Moral equivalency and relativism"? Maybe, but it is my considered opinion that much more harm has been done throughout history by "moral absolutism". And, to be sure, everything that I have been talking about applies to what the "bumfuckistanis" do in "bumfuckistan", to use PiggyBank's terminology.