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LinkPizza posted...

Just the same old your parents made a choice for you like they did for years of your life.

And that's all well and good except for they're making the choice to remove a part of your body.
If they were deciding what you eat, what kind of entertainment you watch, and what kind of people you're allowed to be around, it's one thing. But when it's the choice to make a permanent change to your body, it's completely different. By choosing not to do it, the child remains to have the choice.

I haven't yet heard one good counter-argument to this. In fact, the typical reply is "well, I'm cut and I don't mind"
Imagine if you grew up your whole life with a foreskin and someone else chose to have it removed without your consent. You all chock it up to "parents make decisions for their kids and that's fine" and for the vast majority of cases, you're exactly right. It is fine. But when it comes to a permanent irreversible change, it's a different ballpark altogether. It's like if your parent decided without your consent to give you a face tattoo. It's a permanent change to your body that you have no control over. (Before you argue laser tattoo removal surgery, imagine if that technology didn't exist for this argument) The fact you don't see a problem with this says you either don't want to admit that the choice your parents made (regardless of whether or not you're okay with it now) wasn't morally okay, or you're just in denial.

This argument just shows that you're biased towards circumcision because yours is circumcised. The fact that you would take away their choice because you don't want them to be biased towards having an intact penis says that you don't care at all about their choice.

The fact of the matter is. This has less to do with circumcision and more about leaving your child with no choice in the matter.
Using your frail logic, it should be okay to cut the bottom of your baby's earlobe off at birth based on the fact that you find it more appealing to look at.

The argument isn't that making a choice for your baby is bad. It's that robbing your baby of that freedom of choice is bad.
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