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Originally Posted by Chris
Let's not generalise the particular, shall we?
Circumcision is a safe, widely practised religious ritual. There is no compelling reason to prevent it.
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We are not generalising the particular at all, or at least I'm not. I'm not concerned about the fact that this particular circumcision went wrong, because that was completely preventable.
What I'm talking about is that parents decide that it's right to remove part of the penis of their son (which let's face it is rather difficult to undo) without their son's permission when 1. There is no compelling medical reason to do so (at least at an early age), and 2. In the case of the muslim religion (but if I'm not mistaken not in the case of Judaism) there is not even a religious requirement to do it at an early age.
We're not talking ear piercings or inoculations here. We're talking about a part of a man's anatomy, and I don't think it's rather debatable whether it should be up to the parents to decide for their son whether or not he gets to keep it.