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Should I circumcize my son?
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| Yes, of course. |
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20 |
25.32% |
| No, why would you? |
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51 |
64.56% |
| Try it on a banana first. |
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8 |
10.13% |
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79 voters |
100% |
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Tom31
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Ah, I have returned from vacation just in time to prolong your misery.
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I think you’ve presented the “medical” arguments fairly, but I think your analysis needs to be taken to another level. Suppose doctors said the following to parents of newborns:
“If we cut off one of your baby’s little fingers, s/he will never get it caught in a car door and it will never develop hangnail or arthritis. These benefits are extremely minor, but on the other hand, the surgical risk of removing the finger is quite low as well. Since the harms and benefits are pretty evenly balanced, we leave it up to parents to decide whether their children should have 10 fingers or 9.”
This would suggest that people in this country had a tradition of sacrificing children’s fingers, and the medical profession was afraid of the consequences if it said the obvious: that cutting off a child’s finger is contrary to medical ethics and just plain stupid.
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