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- From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids,soc.men,alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1941@frackit.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:42:33 GMT
- References: <NELSON.92Dec20214732@cheetah.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec29.191816.8746@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.191816.8746@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jcopelan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (The One and Only) writes:
- > It is hard for us to let continue a practice with no good reason that involves
- > a non-consenting third party. It would be a totally different matter if
- > the decision were your's about your body.
-
- And therin lies the crux of this whole discussion. It is hard for you
- to "let continue a practice". It is not your place to let or not let
- the practice continue. Parents make choices for their kids at an age
- where the kids are incapable of making the decisions for themselves.
- That's what parents are for. For better or worse THEY make the
- decisions based on their best information and knowledge, not you.
- Nothing says you can't try and inform them of facts you feel have been
- overlooked by the medical establishement UNTIL said informing becomes
- intrusive.
-
- I was circumsized. Doesn't bother me a bit. My father wasn't. Didn't
- bother him a bit either. Not even in the locker room at the country
- club. Am I glad it was done to me? No opinion either way. Am I glad it
- was done when I was too young to give a damn one way or another? You bet
- your tintype I am. I can see an imaginary scene where some misplaced
- law forces parents to wait until a child hits the age of, say, 13 to
- decide if he wants 'the clip job' or not. The kids answer would likely
- be:
-
- "You wanna do WHAT? To my WHAT?!?!?!?!?!? No friggin' way!"
-
- Which would make all the anti-circumcision people exceedingly happy but
- would not necessarily be The Right Thing [tm].
-
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