“I’m cut and turned out fine” fails to persuade me for the same reasons “I got beat and turned out fine” fails. Give me better arguments.
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Replying to @JillianKeenan
Relatively low risk of problems for a smegma free life seems like good trade off to me.
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Replying to @datagoneodd
Yup! I can see why consenting adults would choose to make that trade!
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Replying to @JillianKeenan
Not everyone shares your relationship with pain. "If you want it, you can do it as an adult" ignores the significant benefit to doing it right after birth.
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Replying to @datagoneodd @JillianKeenan
Not everyone shares your "relationship with pain" either, particularly infant boys who pass out from the pain of their circumcisions. There's no "significant benefit" to strapping down a healthy infant and amputating a healthy & functional body part, often w/out anesthetic
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Replying to @cooney21
I think there are valid anti circumcision arguments, but the pain one is least impactful on me because they have no memory of it.
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Replying to @datagoneodd
There's a term for that. It's called the Bill Cosby defense.
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Replying to @cooney21
I'm not really sure how compatible those two situations are.
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Replying to @datagoneodd
Bill Cosby stands accused of sexually assaulting women while they were unconscious, and thus unable to remember the event. Nontherapeutic infant circumcision is sexual assault that is also not remembered by the patient/victim.
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Replying to @cooney21
If they are the same situation, why do the vast majority of those circumcised not care, while those drugged and sexually assaulted do?
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