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- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- In-Reply-To: thom@cs.mun.ca's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:03:42 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:05:10 GMT
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- In article <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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- 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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- Compare risks vs. benefits. Which of the benefits of circumcision is worth
- the (small) risk of emasculation?
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- --russ <nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> Businesses persuade; Governments force.
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