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Originally Posted by troutman
Slow down Thor - you are putting positions I don't hold on my plate. I posted the link as a starting point, and as I said, the comments after the article carry on the debate, and raise many of the same points you did.
The latest thread at science base medicine is usually a good place to start. I'd like to see this topic updated there.
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That thread is linked to my friend Dr. Harriet Hall, and it is as out of date and beyond science-based logic when I met her and brought her to Iceland to do skeptics in the Pub in 2014.
I, in fact, sent her a message on FB recently and she still says she thinks that CC of boys is a neutral position, and I think this is a deeply flawed idea as a humanist, and on ethical grounds.
I have not put anything on your plate Trout, you have for as long as I have been here at CP a skeptic, a logical person.
There is no logical or ethical reason to support circumcision of boys. Even if those who have been CCed like to take the default position of defending it and even joking about it, there is really no reason why we should be shocked at the mutilation of girls genitals or boys genitals equally.
Tradition is not an excuse, and those parents who have chosen to CC are not monsters, it is just time we all recognized it is time to stop this for our future generations.