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Even if we take as a given that it doesn't do anything.. I mean, shit. My appendix doesn't do anything, and I have yet to find a use for that little fleshy bit at the end of my nose. I'm sure as hell not chopping it off.
Do maternity wards charge by the ounce or something? Are we worried about the kid's 0-60 time, and saving every conceivable bit of weight? Where does useless equate to 'gots to go'?
The hygiene thing always comes up in these discussions. If you can't keep your foreskin clean, then you need to bitch your nurse out in a major way because you're not capable of bathing yourself. It's really not hard.
Don't get me wrong here, at the end of the day, this isn't an issue I'm going to crusade about. I'm not picketing hospitals and starting pro-turtleneck movements. But at the same time, my thought process tends to run that fewer unnecessary surgical procedures are better.
Why do it?
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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