I believe in individual freedom, not giving some people the freedom to deny freedom to other people. That includes limiting the rights people have over their children's bodies and beliefs.
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Our duty of care & discipline to our children should not include permanently modifying their bodies to mark their entry into our religion, political party or football team. The fact that the last two are clearly unethical to almost everyone should show the problem with the first.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
What if the children consent to it? Then you would be denying the individual right of the child to participate in the religion of their parents by denying them to modify their bodies.
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Then we have to have conversations about the ages at which kids can make these decisions for themselves taking into account how serious the modification is & whether the child is under pressure from parents who have power over them.
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We might say "No' to a 16 year old wanting a mastectomy, for example, but decide a 14 year old saying he wants a circumcision because he is Jewish can make that decision. Ear piercing is almost reversible so perhaps a ten year old could take responsibility for that decision.
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There is always a certain arbitrary nature to the ages at which we decide kids can make their own decisions about sex, drinking, voting, tattoos etc and we will always disagree. The principle is tho that they should be the ones to make them.
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