I believe mutilating/modifying anyone else's body, including a child, should be illegal. But that's just me.
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Replying to @BoreasBear @Frute_Brute
Despite the fact that it has no demonstrable negative effects, may even have (minor) positive health effects, and is a sacred traditional and religious practice of millions of Jews and Muslims? I wouldn't choose it for myself/my child, but making it illegal seems rather extreme.
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Replying to @2ishta @BoreasBear
At least give the child a choice to make the decision for themselves once they hit puberty or some older age. As for the health ‘benefits’ I guess it just makes hygiene easier. I just have to be more hygienic than a standard American male :3
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Replying to @Frute_Brute @BoreasBear
So you would support forbidding people from choosing to do it to their babies (when it is easy and safe)? Esp given its religious and cultural significance to Jews and Muslims? And lack of any harm? Borderline anti-Semitic, tbh. Religious freedom -> more important than foreskins
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Replying to @cmz_ishta @BoreasBear
But I do wanna butt back in here and lmao that you said my stance was borderline anti-Semitic. Christians cut their babes too. It’s so common here in the U.S. that it’s become almost a standard. The Jewish faith or any Abrahamic faith did not come into my mind when opposing this
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Replying to @Frute_Brute @BoreasBear
Sure, but it's not a part of Christian tradition. They aren't doing it for religious reasons. American hospitals routinely performing circumcisions for no real reason /is/ strange - but proposing a /law/ against anyone doing it effectively prohibits a Jewish/Muslim religious rite
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Replying to @2ishta @BoreasBear
I can say that I would not outright vote to make it illegal so religious rights would not be hindered, but I would agree for a law prohibiting it done to children before they can decide if they want it or not. I’ve met too many friends who wish it hadn’t been done.
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Replying to @Frute_Brute @BoreasBear
I think this is a slippery slope argument. You want to argue for the rights of the child, what about the rights of the parents to raise children as they see fit? Should we also have laws prohibiting parents from feeding their children junk food? Laws to make exercise compulsory?
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You may not be religious, and I'm not myself, but to disparage piety and limit the ability of others to practice their religion just because you wish you had a foreskin is outrageous. Forcing secular philosophy on someone is no different from forcing a religious dogma upon them
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Here's the problem, you are arguing for forcing religious dogma on someone, on the child. Freedom of religion needs to apply to them too, my mother was catholic, I am not, I didn't have any marks of that faith cut into me, though i was cut because here that was "normal" then.
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They now regret it, now that I have told them I wish it was never done, and shown them research that says circumcision does damage. I think their reasons were worse than religious reasons, but religious rights of the parents end where the rights of their child start.
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