BettyLouWho

What all of these measures are of course, is a riff on the practice of Shunning sometimes called Disfellowshipping; a very effective form of punnishment.

I agree. Young children can be seen un-including the ones who behave antisocially. An afternoon on the sidelines in the playground can teach a kid not to grab or hit his/her playmates.

It's too bad that sexual predators are not so easily 'cured'. I like the idea of a one way trip to a Alcatraz-style lock up (with no PC!) for these monsters. A hurricane would be too good for them!

^^ its not just a question of phisical damage... i know for a fact that id be mightily irked if my foreskin was removed when i was young.

 

you have to take into consideration that the infant may grow up to wish he had retained his foreskin.

 

Dak: I have an infant son for whom the decision was made by me, his mom to leave him intact for exactly the reasons that you stated. I would think that I should be furious if I were, say, tatooed, pierced or was otherwise mutilated without my permission. (Forgive me, circumcised men if I imply that you are incomplete...somehow the 50/50 decision of our parents to circumcise or not has left me with little or no opinoin about the finished product!)

My point (and I do have one!) is simply that my gift to my child was to have a body that is the way it was created. It is HIS to pierce, tattoo, or edit as he chooses. I thought that it would be better for him to scold me for not having a circumcision done and still have the option to do so, than it would for him to curse me for taking body parts away that cannot be replaced.

Did your classmates come up with anything creative? Just curious. What sort of sense of humour does your teacher have?

Hi Neon. My first math based thought is, of course, negative tree. Hey, would that tree have a square root?