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Well, parents are allowed to mark their children with musical taste, their political views, their habits, their values. These are also irreversible. Parents ar
by fiatjaf 10y ago
Well, parents are allowed to mark their children with musical taste, their political views, their habits, their values. These are also irreversible.
Parents are allowed to feed their children the way they want, to take their children to spots where they might get a disease, to pass on their own diseases to their children.
Parents are allowed even to pass on their genes, which may contain horrible psychological tendencies, to their children.
- Brotkrumen 10y ago"Other bad things happen so we shouldnt try to improve this Bad thing!"
- hamandcheese 10y agoI think the parent is just pointing out that the outrage seems a bit disproportionate. There are far more damaging things a parent can do that most people accept, whereas the actual effect circumcision has on your life is basically zero.
- Brotkrumen 10y agoIf that's the argument, I'm not convinced. We as a society try to influence the saner parts of what parent mentioned, such as values and pox parties. Passing on genes, well we generally don't want to prevent that, because, contrary to forbidding circumcision, the cure would be worse than the disease.
- fiatjaf 10y ago> contrary to forbidding circumcision That's the part when you introduce your values and your judgement and try to make it sound as if everybody agrees.
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- dbansk 10y ago"musical taste, their political views, their habits, their values. These are also irreversible." Musical tast, political views, habits and values are irreversible? Really?