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Just to reiterate: people have a problem with making a permanent major modification to a functional part of an unconsenting baby's body. That means that your a
by ralusek 5y ago
Just to reiterate: people have a problem with making a permanent major modification to a functional part of an unconsenting baby's body.
That means that your arguments regarding whether you think your circumcision is cool irrelevant, or whether you think it's hygienic, or whether you think people prefer how it looks. Nobody has a problem with individuals choosing to get circumcised.
- umvi 5y agoBabies by definition can't consent. They can't consent what language they are taught, what religion they are taught (or not), what food they are given to eat, what air they breathe (whether it has tobacco or cannabis smoke in it or not). Parents consent for the baby. And parents do circumcisions and ear piercings at birth so that the kid won't experience any pain having the same procedure when older. Sure, in a perfect world, parents wouldn't circumcise their boys or pierce the ears of their girls as infants and let them choose for themselves. But those are pretty minor compared to all the other major ways parents can really mess up a kid.