Well, we have. Its the normal one about not doing unnecessary, essentially cosmetic genital surgery on babies who cannot consent. If people want to make circumcision an exception to the 'don't chop bits off your kids w/out good reason' rule, they need to make a strong case.https://twitter.com/JamesHeartfield/status/934841329334603777 …
Even making it slightly more difficult or less effective should have been enough. Penises got optimised! That's why they have a plunger on the end! XD
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The plunger on the end is to extract competitors' sperm. That makes survival of your genes a lot more likely. Having to mess around with foreskin? Not an issue preventing fertilization.
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Exactly. Well, if it doesn't make sex even a little bit more difficult or tiny bit less successful, it can stay.
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It makes sex more difficult for some men, and less successful for a good number more. I think a better question would be what reasons we find valid to circumcise.
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But then these men would have fewer offspring and foreskins would recede surely? Why would there be skin which made procreation harder?
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Because evolution is a lot more messy than that. Foreskin comes from the much older sheath of quadrupeds, and evolution doesn't make big jumps. So if intermediate steps toward no-4skin don't improve matters, the chasm is never bridged.
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And wouldn't it? Improve matters? If foreskin is a problem for some and not for others, there's clearly variation which should be subject to natural selection, no?
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Via which gradual path should foreskin disappear? If I'm not mistaken, it's formed together with vital parts of the penis in embryo. Beneficial variations in foreskin would therefore be highly likely to cause detrimental changes in the other parts.
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The same as with other vestigial parts. I've just been reading and apparently, rather than shrinking, evolution made it grow. Considered beneficial for reproduction: http://www.historyofcircumcision.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=15 …
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