Yes i view it as totally unneeded bar for medical necessity.
No, i believe parents should ultimately have the choice to decide.
This is a non-issue for me and i have no real opinion.
Popcorn time.
you must not have any children huh... i make thousands of choices for my children everyday... you act like this is a big one. its actually pretty damn small (no pun intended)... more important decisions like which neighborhood am i gonna raise my kids in, which school will they go to. Will I save for college... but yeah I guess in a perfect world we all can sit around discussing something unimportant as male circumcision.
PS im not religious at all either and i still support the right to circumcise your child if you want.
I feel sad for all those who think that its the parents call...
It is a religious issue for some people. They will just go to another country to have it done.
For me the issue is not circumcision, but the fact that it is done to children without their consent. Religion or not, it should be illegal to be done to children, and not illegal for everyone.
So because you raise your child and will have to make decisions for them that benefit them, it's okay to rob them from the decision whether or not to get a piece of their body cut off? What lame-ass excuse is that to uphold a barbaric tradition? I can almost not even take you seriously for equating those things. You are non-beneficially cutting off a part of your infant's body without their consent. You're cutting off a part of their body for the sake of cutting off a part of their body. Yeah, bla-bla tradition. But things aren't automatically good just because they are traditions. That's circular logic.
Whether or not you find it horrible mutilation, it's still robbing your child from deciding on his own whether he wants to get a piece of his body permanently cut off or not. If the removal itself isn't horrible, then having the gall to think you can decide whether or not your child should have a piece of his body and going along and removing that piece is the retarded part.
Summary: stupid traditions are stupid and barbaric.
Pretty sure you should get that checked.if i had anymore sensation i dont think i would last more than 20secs
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The fact that their books don't show foreskin further proves my claims about the population being brainwashed into thinking it's normal.
Shooting you in the hand is not as bad as shooting you in the head. Doesn't make it any less illegal.it's not as drastic as a subincision so people need to... relax and stop comparing it to this horrible horrible mutilation.
Mutilation and violation of human rights are what they are, regardless of gravity.
Every parent does a 100 things which will have a much more negative inpact on their child then circumstion. If we should prevent everything hurting a child as much or more ik any way we would have to leave all bringing up of children strictly to the goverment which I doubt many in here is in favour of.
Could it be the problem is that this case often has something to do with cultures alot of people have a problem with these days (especially in racist finland).
I don't know why mutilation of babies is even legal in the first place (well, I do, but yeah).
Parents of baby boys who die from circumcision make no decision that more negatively affects that child.
And for what?
Just because worse things happen doesn't mean this one is any less right.Every parent does a 100 things which will have a much more negative inpact on their child then circumstion. If we should prevent everything hurting a child as much or more ik any way we would have to leave all bringing up of children strictly to the goverment which I doubt many in here is in favour of.
It is a violation of bodily autonomy, torturing a defenceless child and destroying part of his body for no good reason.
I disagree quite vehemently. Women and men aren't different species. Genital mutilation, whether male or female (and all their 'traditional' gradients, from a cut to full-out removal) is a problem that should concern all of us. I am born male. Women's problems are still MY problems as well, however, because we are both human. It's my species. Likewise, I believe that men's problems should be women's problems as well. Again; same species.
Plumbing is a minor detail, and should be irrelevant when it comes to rights, autonomy and opportunity. Just going 'oh, but that's YOUR problem' won't solve it. That kind of attitude didn't bring universal suffering, didn't end forced conscription for males, and didn't get women equal wages and opportunities (in the places that have achieved that).
We're all in this together.
That sounds lazy. Just because you're a woman doesn't mean you can't weigh up pros, cons, look at statistics and come to logical conclusions based on what you find. I'm not a woman but I know abortion becomes more dangerous and invasive the further into pregnancy a woman goes, same principle.