Another way of thinking about it, that seems to clarify it for me, is to imagine a new belief system with a new attendant surgical manifestation.
If all of the people who self identified as Jedi on the millennium census started claiming the right to cut off the earlobes of their children, how would the media, public and government respond?
Tut, do an online survey, get distracted, forget what we were talking about, drag it all back up again in two-three years time when we need an outrage to distract from another story.
Another way of thinking about it, that seems to clarify it for me, is to imagine a new belief system with a new attendant surgical manifestation.
If all of the people who self identified as Jedi on the millennium census started claiming the right to cut off the earlobes of their children, how would the media, public and government respond?