tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post1364693591863867753..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #12195Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-20248245721373339632012-07-16T17:23:34.223-05:002012-07-16T17:23:34.223-05:00"According to the Congressional Budget Office..."According to the Congressional Budget Office the program is full funded until 2038 with no changes whatsoever. The increased revenue needed to keep the program fully funded for the rest of the century is a bit more than 5 percent of projected wage growth over the next three decades."<br /><br />Bugger off on the arguing over who's looping off who's TIPS. I am getting a raise of 5 percent in 30 years. Yippy. All is well.<br /><br />Never you mind about current wage stagnation or actual documented declines in wage growth for the last 20 years. Tomorrow is gonna be different.I'm Not POTUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06885542838234710249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-48199777381129812552012-07-15T15:08:57.263-05:002012-07-15T15:08:57.263-05:00Extra points for Chris A.'s excellent resoluti...Extra points for Chris A.'s excellent resolution of the moral/ethical question.<br /><br />ckmCharles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-56175687053604890202012-07-15T14:20:49.338-05:002012-07-15T14:20:49.338-05:00Elective surgery without informed consent is uneth...Elective surgery without informed consent is unethical. End.of argument AFAICT.<br /><br />Why not nose jobs? "It's our tradition."ChrisAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17574929007155402374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-48446046496846224692012-07-15T00:16:32.421-05:002012-07-15T00:16:32.421-05:00thank you for your comment Rick and for the link. ...thank you for your comment Rick and for the link. I really do think it is about "our" tradition vs "their" tradition. And of course, the other is always made out to be "irrational" and "unreasonable", so that those with power and privilege may with good conscious ignore the voice of those with less.<br /><br />The goodest of the good, do the harmfulest of the harm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-22922635045012871022012-07-14T13:43:23.934-05:002012-07-14T13:43:23.934-05:00Yes, not all female circumcision involves removal ...Yes, not all female circumcision involves removal of the clitoris. This is argument by extremes and is pointless. You could as well say that male circumcision ends in penectomy because that has happened.<br /><br />For an interesting take on the difference:<br /><br />http://www.cirp.org/news/1996.09.13_SeattleTimes/<br /><br /><br />Oh, and by the way that "flap of skin" is a third of the skin of the intact penis...Ricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-86505295616004775892012-07-14T10:09:29.008-05:002012-07-14T10:09:29.008-05:00Well, I'd side more with claudia than with &qu...Well, I'd side more with claudia than with "tradition", but isn't it to some degree a matter of degree - mutilation is okay if it's minor and transient? In that case, how much is too much? You have two kidneys, after all...<br /><br />ckmCharles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-65179572645605831302012-07-14T09:47:07.186-05:002012-07-14T09:47:07.186-05:00The difference is that removal of a scrap of skin ...The difference is that removal of a scrap of skin (male) leads to few lifetime consequences, while the removal of the clitoris and/or the labia and/or literally sewing up the vagina can lead to lifetime pain, infections, problems with childbirth and death. Definitely a difference.claudiaReschnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-22951826241554102872012-07-14T09:21:10.233-05:002012-07-14T09:21:10.233-05:00re "Just Wondering" - the answer is, in ...re "Just Wondering" - the answer is, in the words of Fiddler on the Roof, "Tradition!" - more specifically, OUR tradition versus THEIR traditionmistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com