RE: To circumcise or not to circumcise?
June 11, 2016 at 10:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2016 at 12:17 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 11, 2016 at 9:58 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I'm not sold on the health benefits of circumcision. The studies I've found all show a negligible benefit. ...]
Most benefits shown seem to be in places, where hygiene standards are very low and infection rates very high. So - as I said before - perhaps for people, who live in a warm puddle in the middle of a jungle, it might be a useful procedure; better than doing nothing, anyway.
In a similar way , if you don't have modern antibiotics available - then perhaps immediate amputation may be the best treatment of an infection. But if a doctor did that in a modern hospital - he'd be considered a hack and a monster. Because WE HAVE BETTER OPTIONS AVAILABLE NOW. Of course - people who already had their limbs hacked off would probably attempt to glorify the "benefits" of stumps in an attempt to rationalize past decision - because it's not like they have a choice now, do they? Might as well make yourself feel good about it...
Another good example - beating children. I don't care how many times someone tells me, that their father beating them bloody was a necessity, or even beneficial in some way. That still doesn't make it right...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw