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Circumcision isn't mutilation. That's a fact. Infant circumcision to appease a sky fairy or to fit in with your neighbours? Yeah that's mutilation.
No it isn't. A lot of people are victims of disinformation and "willingly" agree to a circumcision later in life as an easy solution to something like phimosis only to discover how much harm it does.
That's a fun way to describe a last resort when all else has failed... the "easy" way.
I should've also put "easy" in quotes to make my point clearer, but I was in a rush. But yeah, that's how the "experts" present it.
I'm getting a conspiracy theory vibe from you.
Look no further than John Kellogg
No mention of circumcision
There are plenty, but the article does appear to have been modified heavily since I last checked it. Kellogg advocated for circumcision because he knew that it was mutilation.
Ctrl + f "circumcision"
Regardless, some nut's opinion hardly says much. He also made Corn Flakes to make people stop masturbating.
EDIT: Looks like he may have been behind the circumcision of children in the US, though that is disputed. It seems the nut mostly saw it as a way to stop masturbation.
So, still irrelevant to what I've said.
You have to expand the subcategories first lol
You could try making your point instead of just joking. You're just convincing me you're a troll.
EDIT: Ok no, I see now. Is this it?
So, he advocated for circumcision for uncleanliness and masturbation which is, of course, absurd. But it seems for phimosis it generally is the last resort once all else has failed.
Performing a modification to someone's body to inhibit them from doing something that's normal and that they want to do is mutilation.
Not what's happening in what we're discussing, and also not what mutilation means.
0/2.