Please try to interpret my cannibalism comparison in the sense that it was meant. Something psychologically horrifying but physically inconsequential vs something psychologically horrifying AND physically consequential. You can’t just refute a comparison by saying “those two things are incomparable”.
Even if they weren’t comparable, the point of the example is so that people will acknowledge that the experience of being deeply horrified by something is not just in the immediate physical consequences. And that there are other cases where we regard this phenomenon as a reaction to being genuinely violated in some way and not just a weird mental glitch.
Edit: In the documentary American Circumcision, the director did go to Africa and interview women and it was basically how you described it.
Viliam, those would also be valid comparisons.
Please try to interpret my cannibalism comparison in the sense that it was meant. Something psychologically horrifying but physically inconsequential vs something psychologically horrifying AND physically consequential. You can’t just refute a comparison by saying “those two things are incomparable”.
Even if they weren’t comparable, the point of the example is so that people will acknowledge that the experience of being deeply horrified by something is not just in the immediate physical consequences. And that there are other cases where we regard this phenomenon as a reaction to being genuinely violated in some way and not just a weird mental glitch.
Edit: In the documentary American Circumcision, the director did go to Africa and interview women and it was basically how you described it.