How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.
Michel OnfrayI believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
Michel OnfrayGod is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
Michel OnfrayFor the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
Michel OnfrayMany militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Michel Onfray