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- From: gdavis@griffin.uvm.edu (Gary Davis)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
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- References: <1992Dec8.184606.25561@ncsu.edu> <1992Dec9.210616.27866@crd.ge.com> <1glhqeINNi59@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu> <NELSON.92Dec20214732@cheetah.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec21.040342.7660@cs.mun.ca>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:05:20 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.040342.7660@cs.mun.ca> thom@cs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy) writes:
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- >nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
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- >>In article <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu> kgatling@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Keith E Gatling) writes:
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- >> 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*?
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- >>I'd say that you hadn't considered that the circumcision could turn into
- >>an emasculation. It happens, it's scary. Well, it scares *me* anyway.
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- >>--
- >>--russ
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- >Right, and let's not forget that when someone goes in to have heart
- >surgery they sometimes remove a lung by accident.
- >
- > Give me a break, shit happens. This is such a trivial procedure...
- > Though I suppose the Doctor(s) might accidently sneeze and remove
- > both testicles and a nurses eye in the process.
- >
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- I used to believe that the two principle reasons Americans circumcise
- was conformity and ignorance. Now after reading the above add stupidity,
- and the sensitivity of Plymouth rock.
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- --
- Gary E. Davis /WQ1F/
- Dpt. Electrical Engineering and Com Sciences
- University of Vermont @ Burlington
-