Arsenic7

Edit: I do not in any way think people who have their children circumcised are monsters or being cruel or anything like that, they just AREN'T logical. While I think circumcision is the wrong choice I don't think it should result in arrest or anything rediculous like that.

I think it's funny a lot of people didn't get charlatans sarcasm in his first posts...

but anyway...to ngdawg, I was referring to piercings performed on a newborn child. Are you saying you wouldn't have a problem with me giving my newborn baby girl a septal, nipple, or clitoral hood piercing?

And as far as aesthetics, I think that everyone just plain prefers what they are used to. Here in the US that happens to be cut. If a women had mostly positive experiences with uncircumcised men, or had grown up with a knowledge of them but not the other, I'm positive she'd find them more attractive and vice versa.

But frankly, this idea that the body of a child belongs to the parent is kind of creepy in my own opinion.

I'd also echo what has been said by charlatan...that we don't generally do things we don't have a reason to do, but the more appropriate comparison here is that you don't generally work to limit your own options, or the options of others, given the choice to do so.

If you leave your son uncut, he has the option to have the procedure done later in life should he want it. If you cut him, he doesn't really have the option to reverse that does he. It's like giving you the choice to either A: take a dollar and spend it on anything you wish or B: take a dollar and spend it on hemmerhoid creme. Yeah, the hemmerhoid creme might be kinda nice, but the logical human being doesn't limit their choices like that unless it's something they really need ie. jews thinking they need to have their children circumcised or risk damnation.

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