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Solidarity is a basic principle of our association. As people who have experienced different things and still get together, we have to agree on what we have in common, for example the possible lifelong consequences of what we experienced. There is no “hierarchy of suffering” here. So that one would say to each other: “But you have it much easier than I have”. Everyone has his own story. And no one is to judge the experiences of others. Only the person concerned may do this for himself.
Solidarity is also an important point in the Cologne ruling, which we are going to celebrate again this week. Something incredible happened eight years ago: A non-therapeutic foreskin [[amputation ]] on a boy was considered as a criminal offense. On what basis could this judgment be made of?
In 2000 the German Bundestag passed a law: the right of the child to non-violent upbringing. Whether you were used to doing something with children, whether you had always done it that way, the intention of the adults: from now on, none of this played a role in the basic classification. With this, our society has set itself a very high standard!