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- From: thom@cs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.074458.9858@cs.mun.ca>
- Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
- References: <1992Dec19.172939.18506@newstand.syr.edu>> <NELSON.92Dec20214732@cheetah.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec21.040342.7660@cs.mun.ca> <1992Dec27.173429.5492@newstand.syr.edu> <ksand-271292172758@wintermute.apple.com> <KAYVAN.92Dec28172903@satyr.Sylvan.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:44:58 GMT
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- kayvan@satyr.Sylvan.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) writes:
-
- >In article <ksand-271292172758@wintermute.apple.com> ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik ) writes:
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- >A deeper question: Why do we assume that we *can* make and carry out a
- >decision that permanently affects another human being's body simply
- >because they happen to be our children?
-
- > ---Kayvan
-
- Silly question... for that matter, what gives us the right to BRING
- children into this god-forsaken marble we call earth? We don't
- *assume* anything, what we do is make the best decision we can with
- the information we have. I certainly wish *MY* parents had had me
- circumcised when I were born, then I would have avoided quite a few
- painful memories I now have. I *HAD* to be circumcised at a later
- age, and it was NOT enjoyable at all, nor was it do to lack of
- cleanliness (sp?). I just can't relate to those that bitch about
- their parents removing their foreskin, as far as I am concerned, it sounds
- as though they are all victims of listening to the likes of the above
- and those that say, "Man, it sure is *better* when you have a foreskin".
- , seems like they are getting a complex or being duped into believing that
- the grass is "greener". I have been there, and *my* opinion is that *I*
- prefer it without a foreskin, and I certainly wish my parents had the
- foresight to do so at that time. Hell, my appendix may never rupture, but
- if I had the opportunity to have them removed whilst something else
- was being done, or have it done so that I would not remember I certainly
- would. Ever heard the old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a
- pound of cure" ? or something to that effect anyways.
-
- Thomas
-