It's like people forget that true or not, people deserve to make decisions about their own body & it isn't wrong for them to be upset when that agency is taken away. There's a time and place for everything obviously, it wasn't it here, but it's a valid thing to be upset about.
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More than would benefit a male child at that age. The only one that would actually be beneficial is genital infections, which circumcised or not I've rarely known a boy to get if not an STD. But that's anecdotal. Either way, it's too debatable about how much circumcision helps to
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take away agency from a person, especially when it certainly has serious problems it can pose health wise such as loss of genitals, which is more common than people realize. Looking out for the child's health, physical and mental, it makes more sense to not do it than to do it.
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If you focus purely on health, yes it could make sense to wait until their are old enough to choose for themselves. There are health benefits besides sexual, like genital skin infections and bacteria buildup being at lower risk, but, regular cleaning could prevent that.
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With the improvement of modern technology and medicines, it’s not very common for a first world infant male to lose their genitals. But, that being said, some places that practice circumcision aren’t first world, in which case they won’t care or know about our Twitter convo
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There are pros and cons to both. The parents make health choices for their children. Like a child born with extra fingers and toes will have them surgically removed at infants because their parents wanted them to be removed, without the consent of the baby.
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The difference here is a foreskin is not an abnormality. It's a false equivalency to compare it to an extra limb. Like I said even with medical advancements its still far to common for baby boys to lose their genitals, and there's other risks like infection, the effects that
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having a surgical procedure and that much pain inflicted on you at such a young age causes. You'd know these things if you weren't just looking for confirmation bias.
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