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Originally Posted by getbak

So, what you guys are saying is that you've been told by women that they prefer men who are the same way you are? Shocking. I bet they also say that you're the perfect size too.


I believe that the percentage of people who require having their appendix removed at some point in their lives is significantly higher than the percentage of men who will ever require a medically necessary adult circumcision, but we don't run around removing the appendix of every child who's born. Also, an circumcised man who wishes to get cut as an adult can make that choice for himself, the opposite is not possible.


But, to get back to the original question, I think the blame has to fall squarely on the hospital/doctor who performed the procedure. There is enough medical evidence that the procedure is completely unnecessary in the modern developed world, that regardless of the parents' wishes, they should refuse. They wouldn't perform any other medically unnecessary procedure on a child just because the parents requested it, and if they did, they'd be to blame if something went wrong (they'd also be to blame if something went wrong on a procedure that was necessary).

Doctors aren't to blame on a procedure unless they do something negligent. Having something go wrong, isn't enough.