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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 08:38 PM
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229. Well, if you want me to point fingers and say "THOSE people are wrong", you're missing the point
Edited on Thu Dec-14-06 08:46 PM by impeachdubya
of everything I said.

As far as FGM, why don't you argue the point with someone who actually made it. I didn't.

MY point was, it needs to be up to the individual parents to come to their own conclusions. The conclusion *I* came to was that I couldn't arbitrarily decide to have part of my son's body removed unless there was a DEFINITIVE MEDICAL NEED.

As far as the "sensation argument doesn't wash"... Uh, where do you get that? Wanna back it up? Have you been an adult with a foreskin, and without, so you can compare? There ARE nerves in the foreskin- a lot of them- so if there's no foreskin, there's sensation that is gone, namely, sensation from the nerves in the foreskin. That's not an "argument", that's a fact.

My point was, pro-circumcision people can be just as hardheaded and dogmatic as anti-circumcision people. I think the final decision should be up to the parents; and it is- and the same as I wouldn't second-guess any other parents' decision to circumcise, I certainly don't appreciate someone second guessing my decision NOT to.

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