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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jindc]I definitely understand people's strong opinions on the issue, but....like religion - and specifically Christianity, many people who believe in it are convinced that if you DONT follow what they believe is right, you're doing it wrong.  And this is, to me, a stupid issue where people are always going to scold you for believing in the other sise.

I also believe much or the arguments against it largely stem for a dislike of the fact that it's a non-Christian religious practice.  I don't think people like that it's something Jews (and Muslims, though most people don't know they do it too) do.  I've lived in DC for a long time and work in an "educated" environment where people have no idea what a Jew is.

If you don't want to do this to your child, don't.  Don't assume that people who do aren't aware of science or medicine, or are guided purely by aesthetics.  Nor do I think it's appropriate for someone to think another is  a bad parent because they have made their own (educated) decision to do something.  [b]I don't think this one decision - like many other decisions made by parents - are really any business of anyone else, especially if they don't impact your family.[/b]  Not vaccinating your child when it goes to the same day care as mine?  My business.  Your son having foreskin?  What do I care?  I truly don't get the obsession with this, or with the decision other people make for their own families. Especially when 99% of people here (maybe even 100%!) are very educated and well versed in parenting issues.

This is DC - everyone's an expert on everything.[/quote]

NP here. I understand the reasoning that since this doesn't impact anybody but your son and family, you think nobody should have an opinion on it. But see, the issue is (and I don't know why this is so hard to understand since it has been made abundantly clear) that people who are arguing against circumcision view it as a form of child abuse, and therefore as a moral issue. They feel they need to speak up just like they would speak up if they witnessed a discussion where someone was promoting other forms of child abuse. People who practice circumcision obviously disagree with their view and feel that it is none of anybody else's business, and just another parenting decision they make. The two parties will never agree because they see circumcision in so fundamentally different ways. But if you try to put yourself into the shoes of someone who thinks circumcision is child abuse, you might understand why they won't just back out of the discussion. Just like I can understand that you don't want to hear the judgment from the other side.[/quote]

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