To circumcise or not to circumcise?

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It is an unrequired, quite major cosmetic procedure you are thinking of inflicting on a minor without its consent. If the kid wants a cut Pee Pee when its old enough to make that decision then he should get it done, the same as deciding to get a piercing or tattoo. But it should be his choice not yours.

Personally if I was a dude I'd want my parents to have opted for me to get it done while I was still little and too young to remember or understand what was going on. I imagine a circumcision must be quite traumatic for a grown man to get done.

So, I'm going to treat this seriously, and with the due consideration it deserves.

First of all, I'm noting a contradiction in your position here: when you're arguing against the idea that it should be held off until the person is old enough to decide for themselves, circumcision is "quite traumatic," but when you're arguing for doing it to babies, it's "not a major surgery," and is totally not a big deal. Which is it? What this looks like to me, is that you're just saying things to suit your conclusion, and not due to a consistent view you're constructing as you argue.

Secondly, given that the only benefit you've provided for circumcision is that it aligns with your own personal aesthetic sensibilities- which I would really, really hope would be an irrelevant concern for any children you have, as regards their genitals- then aren't you assuming without cause that your child will happen to share those sensibilities when they grow older, such that they'd "want" any such thing? Why do that? Now, you could certainly guide a child's sensibilities down the same path, but aside from being kind of a weird thing to do as a parent, all that really does is add another step to a circular argument routing back, in the end, to your own personal opinions... which I hope you understand shouldn't have any bearing on the appearance of other people, yes?