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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
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- References: <1992Dec9.210616.27866@crd.ge.com> <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:21:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu> kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling) writes:
- >In article <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> potts@oit.itd.umich.edu
- >(Paul Potts) writes:
- >
- > > What they really mean is that Daddy doesn't want to admit to
- > > himself that he is the one who is "different" by virtue of
- > > genital mutilation... and is willing to inflict the same
- > > treatment on son to justify it.
- >
- >Let's try this one more time...I *don't* consider myself to have been
- >mutilated, and I'm actually *glad* that I *am* circumcised. I'm also glad
- >that it was done so early in my life that I have no memory of it, and as a
- >result, intend to do the same if our child is a boy.
- >
- >So now...what do you have to say to a person who intends to have his kid
- >circumcised because he looks at his circumcision as *an advantage*?
- >
- >* Keith E Gatling kgatling@mailbox.syr.edu *
-
-
- I say, let him decide for himself when he's 18. You can tell
- him all the pro's, and he may agree with you. By the way, you
- didn't weigh the pro's and con's yourself; you decided it was an
- advantage, without having any personal point of comparison (or choice).
-
- You can't *ever* give your son the choice, if you amputate his foreskin
- when he's a baby.
-
- Don
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