The Circumcision Debate

[Doug]

Fair enough. Although your 'thing' isn't going to fall off, with or without that 'pointless fap of skin'.

Yeah xD that'd be excessive. Just meant it as.. I don't even know what I meant.

*thingy falls off* OH MY GOD, YOU WERE RIGHT! ARGGGGGHHH!

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Three things that cause me to favor circumcision:

1) I am circumcised, so I tend to get butthurt when people tell me that I'm missing out on the endless pleasures of foreskin.

2) Smegma.

3) Uncircumcised willies look like this:

Praise be to Shai Hulud.​

 

[Ultrajoe]

3) Uncircumcised willies look like this:

Knowing what that should have been an image of (it failed to load for me), I did heartily laugh.

 

[Doug]

Three things that cause me to favor circumcision:

1) I am circumcised, so I tend to get butthurt when people tell me that I'm missing out on the endless pleasures of foreskin.

2) Smegma.

3) Uncircumcised willies look like this:

Praise be to Shai Hulud.​

I'm fairly sure my willy doesn't look like that. Am I odd?

 

[bjj hero]

Spoiler: lots of text

I've not had my son done. Its a minor surgery and I dont feel the need to risk any surgery that is not needed, its purely cultural/cosmetic. If he needs it for medical reasons at a later date, Ill have no issue with it.

It is not done in the UK outside of the jewish/islamic community.

i am against anything that is done to someone that is not life-saving without their approval.


circumcision and baptism are at the top of my "will not do to my little one" list for when i have kids.

baptism? whats really so wrong with it, take away all the religious parts of it and all its doing is putting someone in water, babies don't even get fully submerged when baptized. i guess you problem with this one is the religious part.

I think the problem is that a baby or child doesn't have a religion. Just like they dont have political/idealogical affiliations. They aren't old enough to have decided. Saying a "christian child" is like saying a marxist child, socialst child, republican child etc. Sure some get brain washed in to Christianity etc. I feel its a form of child abuse similar to putting a child into the hitler youth, they are still too young to have made up their mind on such complex ideas.

Ill encourage my son to take RE in school along with science, the arts etc. Ill encourage him to think and work things out himself and not to accept the answers hes given blindly. I wont be deciding for him. If he becomes a reigious adult, its his choice, just like he may subscribe to communism/scientology etc.

If people had such faith in their religion being the truth, they'd let their child make up his/her own mind and not force feed it him/her from day one.]Loads of text

you had a good point until you stated that religion is like the Hitler youth. you might want to change that.

Ok, Hitler youth was not the best example but my pointremains the same. You can brainwash a child into a philosophy, ideology or religion. It doesn't mean you should. Let children make their own choice when they become adults.

Three things that cause me to favor circumcision:

1) I am circumcised, so I tend to get butthurt when people tell me that I'm missing out on the endless pleasures of foreskin.

2) Smegma.

3) Uncircumcised willies look like this:

Praise be to Shai Hulud.​

I'm fairly sure my willy doesn't look like that. Am I odd?

Mine doesn't either but its about the right size...

 

[Doug]

Three things that cause me to favor circumcision:

1) I am circumcised, so I tend to get butthurt when people tell me that I'm missing out on the endless pleasures of foreskin.

2) Smegma.

3) Uncircumcised willies look like this:

Praise be to Shai Hulud.​

I'm fairly sure my willy doesn't look like that. Am I odd?

Mine doesn't either but its about the right size...

You do realise thats under a microscope, right?

 

[Chibz]

medical circumcision, fair enough (my cousin had his removed at about 15 yrs old, it apparently wasnt stretching like it should and was cutting off blood supply, ouch) but signing children up to religious organisations without their input or agreement is exactly like the hitler youth. taking children with no way of knowing what they're getting into, telling them it's a positive thing and priming them to attack non-members. sound familiar?

give children the right to choose their faith/lack of faith without prematurely forcing their hand.

its only fair

That's called phimosis. There are treatment options other than circumcision.