>Study in the fields of anatomy >Actually believing the foreskin have ton of sensation meme Lying won't help your cause.
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Circumcision is used as a life saving surgery, when the foreskin is just too dangerous for babies. Circumcision has been proven to be a huge prevention of STDs
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You're not making any sense, if it's performed as a preventative for STDs then it's not because it's "dangerous" for a baby to have a foreskin. Are you a bot?
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I was talking about two situations where people are circumcised. The least likely is life saving event, since there have been cases where circumcision was needed. I bring up preventiive to show that it does have important benefits for people wanting to do it for said purpose or-
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-as a safe bonus for people doing cosmetically.
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Neither case justifies performing it on a newborn before any phimosis or similar issue even develops. You said elsewhere you don't support that practice, but you keep defending it, so I'm a little lost as to what your point is.
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Like vaccines, there preventions for a reason. You do it early to prevent those stuff from even forming at all. Since why wait for a problem, when you can eliminate from ever coming up. I'm against hospitals forcing circumcisions on all children. It's a parental decision.
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There's no logic in mutilating someone on the off chance that it might prevent a lesser problem down the road though. Otherwise why not just start lopping off all kinds of "non-essential" bits? Breasts? Might get cancer! Testicles? Torsion can kill! Limbs? Might break a bone!
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You can't really call STDs lesser problems when it had destroyed lives each year. Even then, all these other parts have irreplaceable biological function, risk would be higher than the benefits, and will worsen quality of life. Foreskin functions makes no actual difference in-
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