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BUT THE CHILDREN
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There are a number of reasons why one could be medically necessary. I agree that medically unnecessary surgical procedures to infant genitals for purely cosmetic or cultural reasons are pretty unjustifiable, but "any healthcare provider... Should be arrested" is either a bit ill informed, or a wildly extremist position.
If we're banning purely cosmetic or cultural changes to a child's body, are we throwing out ear piercings and back braces and dental work, too? How about haircuts and hair dyes? How about vaccines, since these are now fully included in culture war politics? So much of this seems to boil down to a naturalist attitude towards children. "Just don't change ANYTHING! Changing things is wrong!"
And the fact that its coming from people - like Elon Musk - who paid top dollar for IVF doctors to guarantee his children conform to his consumer preferences (you'll notice he's exclusively had male infant children) is even more obnoxious.
It's very obviously just pot-stirring. Resent your parents for changing you. Resent your children for changing themselves. Medicalize resentment of everyone.
I honestly have no idea where you're going with this. You're comparing carving the skin off a baby's penis for basically no reason, to trimming their hair? Vaccines, back braces, and dental work are not purely cosmetic or cultural. And I have no idea what Elon Musk has to do with it, or where resentment comes into the conversation.
It's entirely possible for most rational people to recognize that a practice was not a great idea, and change moving forward without resentment.
I don't know if this is a strawman, or you're trying to make your case against someone else.
giving a medically unnecessary ear piercing to a 1 year does sound like something that is potentially child abuse, yes
What a terrible excuse to be against bodily autonomy
Weird fucking takes, dude... Maybe you're projecting or something?
You do know that we're talking about mutilating the genitals of infants, right? Just wanted to make sure you knew where you were.
If you have a good reason to continue doing it, I'm sure everyone here would love to hear it.
Brother, as someone who actively wants a circumsision, knock this off lmao
If I snip off the Snuffaluffagus trunk that I've got a foreskin, that shit isn't growing back because it's causing damage.
Ear piercings grow over. Back braces fix damage. Dental braces fix damage. Hair grows back. Vaccines prevent damage.
Fuck off or come up with a significantly better argument so this dismissal isn't so trivial.
Pay millions for IVF so you can have only boys ... wind up with a girl anyway. This just made me laugh. I knew Elon did thus, but it didn't really register until you mentioned it.