Cú Chulainn

make decisions that it is the best thing to do for their child. Scientists and doctors are not gods among men, fortunately and unfortunately. It would be nice, and comforting, if we could find some ultimate objective clear cut truth about health universal to everyone, but alas

we cannot as illustrated by the constantly changing depictions and conclusions of what’s healthy. Just look at the journey of fat and sugar in the American layman psyche over the course of the last sixty years. I’m not throwing the baby out with the bath water ...

but I am trying to provide a perspective that just cause several experts say something, or someone writes a paper does not make anything an undeniable fact. In this vein, where do we start and stop in all of this? Many people believe vaccines are absolutely good always ...

no question, but some don’t for several reasons (some more objective than others). Do we, at a certain point, mandate vaccination? Say we make it so you can’t circumcise a baby; when does that become that you can’t circumcise yourself ...

despite the health risks of having a foreskin (and there are several, it’s not a panacea)? Will people have to continue to fight to be able to control and determine their own body’s gender, or worse yet why can they but I cannot? ...

Here’s a potential other perspective: let’s say I’m a man who loves his circumcised penis. I don’t have to worry about phimosis, or it being unclean, or being too sensitive, or stuff I’ve hypothetically seen others have to deal with. I believe it’s just the best ...

so when I have a son I want to, for totally non-religious reasons, circumcise him too because I think it is ultimately the best for him. Who is anyone and by what authority do they have to tell me I don’t have that right with my own offspring to determine that? ...

You can get all worked up and think some people’s lifestyles are not healthy nor fruitful (I support that) and attempt to let the best idea win. But getting all worked up over something having to do with a person’s, and their child’s, personal health decisions ...