And as for 'consent': that's a very weak argument. Virtually everything parents do to their little children is without their consent, and much of it has lasting physical and mental consequences.
I argue against all forms of non therapeutic, involuntary genital cutting, for females, intersex children, and males. I am not singling out circumcision. However, I do think the genitals are “special” - a uniquely serious and intimate way to be harmed
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Sexual assault is treated more seriously than other forms of assault - violations of a person’s “private parts” are, I think, rightly “singled out” compared to various other harms
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Well, permanently changing your children's brain structure or lung-cells (fine dust) or whatever cells (wrong diet) or life expectation in general seems to me just as bad, and often worse, than a minor cutting at the age of 8 days.
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Well okay - those things create risks of harm, distributed widely. Circumcision constitutes harm, is a 100% risk, and always affects the genitals. So not comparable. But yes, parents should not harm their children in those other ways either.
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