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LinkPizza posted...

Or some people generally dont feel wronged. That happens, too.

If a guy steals $20 from you, you have been wronged. Depending on the circumstances, you may not mind being wronged or feel that you've been wronged, but the fact remains that stealing $20 from somebody is wrong and should therefore be (and is) illegal. Similarly, conducting elective surgical procedures on babies (or anyone else who can't consent) is wrong. Those who have received such surgery may not feel wronged, and may even feel that the outcome is what they would have chosen for themselves, but the fact remains that conducting elective surgery on somebody who can't consent is wrong, and should be illegal.

LinkPizza posted...

Most things youre going to do is going to affect your child.

Not as irreversibly as surgery will. Furthermore, that statement is not carte blanche to do whatever you want to do to your child. Many parenting decisions are considered more harmful than beneficial, and are therefore considered not okay (as an aside, a good many people who were unambiguously abused as children defend such parenting strategies with "I turned out fine so beating kids should be legal," which has obvious parallels to this discussion). Before proceeding with any parenting decision, you need to weigh the benefits and harms. Circumcision has no tangible medical benefit in the vast majority of situations (unless you fail to teach your kid how to wash themselves), and has the potential for some serious side effects, even without considering that it takes the choice away from them later in life. That alone should be enough to convince everyone that it's not a good idea, yet somehow the majority continues with "his might as well look like mine."