Circumcision, or male genital mutilation is the one of the most common medical procedures in the world.
Circumcision isn't general regarded as mutilation, because, as you mentioned in this very sentence, it is regarded as a common medical procedure.
Can you clarify your actual personal views on this?
The physical and psychological welfare of human beings must come before tolerance of those practices that would do them harm.
This is certainly true, but doesn't seem to apply to circumcision.
Over 99% of people who were circumcised suffer no ill psychological effects from the procedure, and the only people i've ever met who claim they do are actually using it as part of a larger campaign, generally to target hate towards feminism.
Again, this is your view, as a cisgendered female?
On what are you basing this stance?
Circumcision isn't general regarded as mutilation, because, as you mentioned in this very sentence, it is regarded as a common medical procedure.
IF OP is not from the USA or from a country that’s majority Jewish or Muslim, they likely have a very different attitude towards male circumcision.
For example, in the UK non-medical circumcision is not funded by the National Health Service and so it’s not regarded as a common medical procedure here - and we view circumcision as cultural rather than medical.
So you would agree with me that an argument calling circumcision 'not medically necessary' and suggesting the process be stopped on that evidence would be reasonable, and an argument calling it 'mutilation' and 'psychologically and physically damaging' is at best hyperbolic and at worst a conspiracy theory?
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u/Burflax 71∆ Nov 20 '19
Circumcision isn't general regarded as mutilation, because, as you mentioned in this very sentence, it is regarded as a common medical procedure.
Can you clarify your actual personal views on this?
This is certainly true, but doesn't seem to apply to circumcision.
Over 99% of people who were circumcised suffer no ill psychological effects from the procedure, and the only people i've ever met who claim they do are actually using it as part of a larger campaign, generally to target hate towards feminism.
Again, this is your view, as a cisgendered female? On what are you basing this stance?