Ice cold. With few exceptions, it's just US doctors who promote circumcision, and their main motivation is the usual one: circumcision is a billion $ industry in the US. Elsewhere, MDs are by varying degrees opposed to it. Danish Medical Ass'n calls it "ethically unacceptable"
4 No one forces an adult to get a circumcision. (Try it & you'll get kicked in the teeth, especially by real libertarians) Virtually all intact men will never want or need one. That's why pro-cutters force it on children, who, unlike adults, can't get effective pain management.
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5 At the risk of stating the obvious (since you never seem to want to accept it): 70% > 30%. Muslims are about 20% of the world's population (two-thirds of the 30% who are circumcised). And Muslim opinion in this area is beginning to change just as Jewish opinion is.
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6 The Libertarian Party Platform (Section 1.1) could not be clearer: "Individuals own their bodies and have rights over them that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate." The section on parental rights expressly opposes child abuse.
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