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Originally Posted by blankall
The biggest argument you have against it is a cultural morality that you shouldn't make a permanent choice for your child. There are plenty of cultural reasons for allowing circumcisions as well.
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No, the biggest reason is that it is not as cut and dry as you make it out to be and that the official stance of many groups as posted in this thread is not recommending circumcisions for all male children. There is a morality aspect to it, but there are other viewpoints as well.
Just as in one of the articles I linked earlier, one of the biggest gains seen is a reduction in UTI's, but the article also said it was estimated that it took ~80 circumcisions to prevent 1 UTI and when taking into account the cost of the procedure, the chances of complications and the rest that it is not really a large net gain (if one at all). Additionally, most of the STD benefits are seen in countries where HIV is a huge problem and with very high risk populations. I don't think it is necessarily fair to translate that to everywhere else in the world.