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I'm afraid it's the case that most all surgeries on infants (circumcision) are elective and performed for aesthetic reasons. For males it's likely they only tim
by mike00632 4y ago
I'm afraid it's the case that most all surgeries on infants (circumcision) are elective and performed for aesthetic reasons. For males it's likely they only time they will go into shock from pain during their lives.
- FredPret 4y agoAbsolute barbarism
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoI find it sad, how people universally agree that female genital mutilation is bad, because cutting off parts for no medical reason is bad.... but then do the same thing to boys, "just because".
- the_af 4y agoI think it's barbaric for boys too.
- wutbrodo 4y agoMost people don't have anything remotely close to what you'd call "beliefs", so no consistency is required between one pseudo-belief they might hold and another.
- Sharlin 4y agoWell, people don't universally agree that FGM is bad because there are people who practice FGM. Also, most people think MGM is… if not barbaric, at least weird, but are somewhat lenient in the name of religious tolerance. The US is the extremely weird outlier.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYeah, i heard that about the US.. that hospitals in some places ask parents directly to do the circumcision after birth as a "default option", and parents have to "opt-out" of it. Really sad and barbaric. Where i live (small eu country), there were some movements to make it illegal (unless medically needed), but it didn't pass, not to offend certain minorities.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoIf you want something even more shocking, ask them how they feel about docking a dog's ears or its tail, then ask them how they feel about routine infant circumcision. For maximum cognitive dissonance, inform them that docking ears and tails is done for both aesthetic and purported hygiene reasons.
- King-Aaron 4y ago> I'm afraid it's the case that most all surgeries on infants (circumcision) are elective and performed for aesthetic reasons Circumcision is awful, for sure. However am I reading your comment correctly in that you think that "most all surgeries on infants are elective and performed for aesthetic reasons"? Because with my little one, he's had to undergo some pretty invasive procedures in his short life so far that are on the extreme opposite of aesthetic reasoning.
- DavidSJ 4y agoCircumcisions are "most all" surgeries on infants (in the US), since they are sadly done routinely on something like a quarter of them (half of anatomic boys).
- Sharlin 4y agoIn the US, yes… although I wonder whether non-MGM surgeries on infants are rare enough that the large number of circumcisions made in the US (and a bunch of smaller countries) actually make them the most common infant surgery worldwide.