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- From: jcopelan@nyx.cs.du.edu (The One and Only)
- Subject: Re: A few facts about circumcision
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.193400.10029@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- References: <24641@alice.att.com> <30493@castle.ed.ac.uk> <24663@alice.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:34:00 GMT
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- In article <24663@alice.att.com> jj@alice.UUCP (Still a curmudgeon) writes:
- >In article <30493@castle.ed.ac.uk> jeremy@castle.ed.ac.uk (Jeremy Henderson) writes:
- >>In article <24641@alice.att.com> jj@alice.att.com (old curmudgeon) writes:
- >
- >>->Jeremy, if you have some FACTS to offer, then offer them.
- >
- >>The FACTS were already offered by the poster who said that she had her
- >>son circumcised and heard him screaming all the way down the hall. How
- >>many horror stories do you really have to hear??
-
- >That's not a fact, that's an anecdote. The "facts" involve the
- >still open question of "is it better", the statistics on
- >disease, injury, and so on. Personally, I don't doubt it hurts,
- >but that's hardly the important issue, if it DOES have long-term
- >medical benefits, the existance of which is not at all
- >disproven (but is not entirely proven, either, and in the
- >context of very modern medicine and hygene is yet to be
- >carefully examined).
-
- This is all very wishy-washy. I have heard many people claim that it is
- an open question, still up in the air, but no one has any references to
- back this up. If you do, please post them.
-
- >More
- >precisely, arguing for "freedom to choose" is inherently
- >the neutral position, as neither endorsement nor banning
- >can represent a neutral position.
-
- Yes, but who is free to chose in this case: the owner of the body, the
- individual involved. Some would claim that the parents are the rightful
- owner's of the infant's body. Pro-circ's would hold this position. Do you?
-
- JC
- --
- Have you washed your brain today?
-