TheCaconym

It's cutting part of the body of a kid that can't consent. Unless it's done for a valid and important medical reason, it's mutilation.

That's roughly my stance in terms of spirituality when it comes to psychedelics.

This testimony from a civilian present at one of the presentation of an american strike plan for nuclear war in 1960 always made me shiver. Some quotes:

There were little marks in other places, too, but somebody noted that a third of Soviet industrial-military strength was concentrated in the greater Moscow area, hence the concentration of bombs dropped on that region. I recall that the plan called for a total of forty megatons - megatons - on Moscow

General Powers waved at the speaker, saying: “Just a minute. Just a minute.” He turned in his front row chair to stare into obscurity of uniforms and dusk stretching behind me and said, “I just hope none of you have any relatives in Albania, because they have a radar station there that is right on our flight path, and we take it out.” With that, to which the response was utter silence, Power turned to the speaker and with another wave of the hand, told him to “Go ahead.”

“There are about 600 million Chinese in China,” he said. His chart went up to half that number, 300 million, on the vertical axis. It showed that deaths from fallout as time passed after the attack leveled out at that number, 300 million, half the population of China.

“What if this isn’t China’s war?” the voice asked. “What if this is just a war with the Soviets? Can you change the plan?” “Well, yeah,” said General Power resignedly, “we can, but I hope nobody thinks of it, because it would really screw up the plan.”

Also from another excerpt of the same book:

The preplanned targets for the whole force included, along with military sites, every city in the Soviet Union and China. There was at least one warhead allocated for every city of 25000 people or more in the Soviet Union.

Really ghastly stuff, discussed by a man cracking jokes in the middle of explaining a plan to kill hundreds of millions and quite possibly most of the human race. Borderline suggesting they should nuke China anyway so his plan is not "screwed up".