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by isomorph·7y ago·view on hn ↗
People downvoting the above - see the cached version of the article to see why the utilitarian / public health justifications are incorrect.

I agree - it's on the wrong side of history. When we look back will be shocked at what we did to ourselves and our children, simply because we could not evaluate a study correctly.

In the case of infants it's certainly non-consensual

In the case of adults there is an issue with the "informed" part of informed consent

There is massive historical momentum behind it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_male_circumcision#R...

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If someone sliced off the tip of his kid’s pinky finger because he claimed God told him to do it, we’d lock him in a padded room. But the tip of the kid’s penis is not only totally fine, we’ll try to convince more people to do it!