Lots of answers, but briefly: 1) Much better to wait until old enough for actual consent - being uncircumcised is not an emergency. 2) Not many adult men choose circumcision for themselves so probabilistic reasoning seems doubtful.
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Replying to @MichaelEzra @DrClareChambers
There's no such thing as "retrospective consent." What you're describing is called ratification. The % of men who won't ratify the circumcisions forced on them as children (I'm one of them) is much higher than you think: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894958 But since it's THEIR bodies...
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Replying to @MichaelEzra @DrClareChambers
Does that mean you think that those who say that girls have an absolute right to refuse nontherapeutic alterations to their genitals have "not well argued with reasoning"? Where are your peer-reviewed, double-blind studies showing most cut women resent it?
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Replying to @MichaelEzra @DrClareChambers
Your feigned boredom at having your arguments disposed of in spades won't fool a single reader of this thread. "Implied future consent" is a figment of your imagination, not a real substitute for the patient's own actual informed consent to amputative genital surgery.
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And what exactly do you think a days-old child could do that could reasonably be considered a basis for inferring his consent to being strapped down so a healthy part of his genitals can be severed, often w/no anesthesia? It's a figment of their imaginations too. #i2
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