RE: Is castrating young boys ethical?
February 3, 2013 at 8:49 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2013 at 8:51 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(February 3, 2013 at 8:36 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: I dont know about that.
Really? Have there? I cant imagine that to be true.
It was probably hormonal treatments now that I think about it. But that would still signicantly affect their physiology growing up I would think. No? So it'd be a pretty big decision.
(February 3, 2013 at 8:48 pm)Annik Wrote:(February 3, 2013 at 8:34 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Haven't there been sex change operations though done to children? Why are they able to choose that but not this?
If so, they are also unethical.
Children can't consent to such procedures.
What makes you say that? How do you determine at what age a person acquires the ability to consent? Is it different from person to person?
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
