" The stupidest thing I ever heard of was slow suicide by cigarette smoking."
I'm not likely to disagree... The difference is, I'm not FORCING MY smoking on a helpless infant.... Slow suicide? So what... all living is slow suicide...   Ya wanna live forever?

"what do you think of tattoos and body-piercing"
You talking about doing it to yourself, or FORCING it on somebody else?    It's your body, and if you wanna cram broken glass up yer butt, I don't give a tinkers cuss... If you wanna claim that "GHAD" or TRADITION or whatver tells you you should cram it up yer childs back-side... That I have a problem with....

"I suspect there's more than a little cultural arrogance in your opinnions"
A little?!?! Try a LOT... I'll yell it from the roof-tops "I'm a better human being than ANYONE who elects to mutilate their children! Especially the ones who do it while hiding behind mythology!!!"

"I ain't Clinton"
You're SOOOOO lucky mate! LOL