Stubby, what I mean is
medical - there are risks with circumsion; botched attempts and infections. No risks that I’ve heard of when you keep the foreskin as long as you keep clean, with the exception of those that have tight foreskins. But I as I understand it this is not that common.
ethichal/moral - just about all arguments FOR cc are based on either medical reasoning that is just not true (see earlier threads for discussions on that) or a variety of themes about religion/tradition/family values etc. None of which are relevant, when weighed against causing pain, fear, discomfort for a baby, which is totally dependent on you for protection, emotional and physical. The person that is willing to cause his/her baby pain without there actually being a medical condition that needs to be taken care of, that person has something wrong with his/her wiring. If the protective instincts aren’t rooted deeper than that, well then there is something wrong with the parent.
irresponsible - risks for infections and future complications are not unheard of. They alone warrant caution. The procedure can be carried out later if there is a medical reason for this.
intellectually dishonest - just about every reason for the procedure is about the parents WANTING, not the child NEEDING, although it is mixed up in a emotional goop of tradition, freedom of choice (whoose goddamn freedom?!) and B.S. medical arguments. And when you sift through the intellectual debris, it’s about the parents wanting (or caving in to pressure of others) it to be done.
The earlobe analogy is just simply that we would consider cutting earlobes mutilation and wrong to be done to minors. What makes circumcision different?
regards, mgus Taped onto the dashboard of a car at a junkyard, I once found the following: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." The car was crashed.
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