This isn’t a way to address your mistaken claim that there is no harm. Arguing that a defense is unprincipled-but-at-least-it’s-popular hardly makes it better, either. Non-therapeutic genital cutting without consent is unethical. Excluding anyone from that is hypocrisy.
-
-
Replying to @ChooseIntact @HPluckrose and
I think I can decide how I will address the argument.
3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
You have the right to, obviously. It just doesn't work.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
-
Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
It doesn't work logically. I don't have my own logic.
2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HPluckrose @ChooseIntact and
If you think that a parent has no right to agree a tonsillectomy, grommets or ear piercings it doesn't work logically, but they do have that right.
3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
I can just think consistently that parents have no right to order a medically unnecessary surgical procedure on a child who is too young to consent & in nearly every other case, the law upholds this. They have no right to withhold medically necessary surgery either.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HPluckrose @ChooseIntact and
I don't think 'medically unnecessary' is as strict a definition as you think. Under the NHS lots of cosmetic surgery is considered medically necessary.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @JamesHeartfield @ChooseIntact and
Make an argument for it being ethical to perform cosmetic surgery on baby boys' genitals but not baby girls, if you can.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @HPluckrose @ChooseIntact and
I don't have to. One is legal, the other is not.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Of course you don't have to make an ethical argument for MGM. If you don't have one, there's nothing further to discuss.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.