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   From: IntelligentPerson@One.com   
      
   Circumcision of minors is mayhem and irreversible body modification that   
   damages and mutilates the sex organ.  Being irreversible, it effects or   
   destroys future abilities or experiences.  It thus should be entirely   
   prohibited on minors who have no capability of consenting for the rest   
   of their lives to a forever life altering act.  Would you find it okay   
   for a parent to mutilate their child in other ways?  How about cutting a   
   child's ears, or nose or fingers off, or binding a child's feet to keep   
   them small, or splitting their tongue?  How about cutting a child's   
   penis off entirely?  Certainly all such practices damage the integrity   
   of the human body, and impair its function for its entire life.  You   
   would not find it okay to impose circumcision on an adult male, would   
   you?  Would you find it okay to cut an adult male's fingers or penis   
   off?  Then how can you find it okay to impose circumcision on a baby, a   
   child, or a teenager who will grow into an adult male?   
      
   Given that circumcision is irreversible body modification, it should not   
   be performed on minors, except for true medical reasons just as any   
   other medically necessary operation.   
      
   Non medically necessary circumcision on minors should be prosecuted as   
   mayhem.  As larceny of body it is the most serious of crimes in the world.   
      
   I say this as someone who was circumcised, and disagrees with the   
   practice on minors!  Leave the decision of circumcision as a personal   
   decision to adults!   
      
   Also, people should have to wait at least 1 week and come back before   
   getting a tattoo, and certainly any more extensive body modification   
   including circumcision.   
      
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