Honestly, why don't people circumcise their sons in D.C.?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of "SAFE" things have occasional terrible results: riding in a car, playing on a playground, eating chicken, crossing the street, walking down the stairs, getting pregnant, flying in an airplane.

Oh geeze. These are weird comparisons.

Do you understand the point? Things aren't deemed unsafe because bad things can sometimes result.

The benefits of circumcision outweigh the risks. That doesn't mean that you should do it, but it does mean that getting this worked up about other people doing it is pretty silly.

let's all have prophylactic mastectomies, just in case we get breast cancer sometime. in fact, let's do that to our infant girls. see how ridiculous you are?

[Anonymous]

I'm amazed this BS thread is still alive. So many idiots, so little time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed this BS thread is still alive. So many idiots, so little time.

And yet, here you are reading and posting on it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP with the wildly disproportionate responses, you should probably talk to some doctors about circumcision. Even those who don't recommend don't think it is mutilation, abusive, perverse, etc. There is no need for the hysteria. Parents aren't performing them themselves.

I strongly recommend you and all pro-circ parents talk to doctors outside the US or actually informed doctors within the US. You will get very different responses than what you probably expect. Circumcision is common practice in the US, yes. Ask a doctor in Europe "So should we circumcise our son after birth?" and let's see what happens.

There is a huge difference between "it's not necessary and I don't recommend it" and the crazy PP's "abusive mutilation" overreaction.

Circumcision is abusive mutilation. Abusive because it is unnecessary surgery on a newborn without that newborn's consent. It inflicts a wound, it inflicts pain - it is abusive. Mutilation because it takes a completely healthy part of a baby boy's body and cuts off a piece of it which is supposed to be there. Which nature made the way it is in order to protect the sensitive head of the penis. It gets cut off because America's messed up society these days thinks it looks better that way.

So yes. Circumcision is abusive mutilation of a baby boy's penis. Nobody has the right to do this to anybody and it is just sad that America (which always calls itself an advanced country...) is so far behind when it comes to protecting baby boys from misinformed parents and doctors. I say this again: Most other advanced countries do NOT practice routine circumcision and parents who would ask in those countries would get nothing but a shocked look from their doctor at best before being properly informed and sent home with a very clear "We don't do that here."

+1,000,000

America is the only advanced country if you asked some Americans. Remember, Bush was trying to "protect" Americans by asking them not to buy medicine from Canada.

[jsteele]

Okay, my patience with this thread has finally run out. Time to lock it.