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Please do post the "more mainstream" views. But mainstream or non-mainstream, truth isn't determined by vote. If it was, we'd all be singing the praises of amalgam fillings, and this website would not exist.
What we decide to sing praises about is allowed by free speech, not legislated by law. (Free speech is not a law, it is a God-given right and therefore cannot be legislated away.)
Some mainstream positions are based on good science, others aren't. We should not throw out all mainstream views simply because they are mainstream (what color IS the sky, anyway). Positions should not be accepted because they
are or are not mainstream. They should be chosen because they are logically and scientifically sound.
It's a tragedy when someone gets hurt in any kind of surgery, but just as in true medicine, you have to look for the real cause. Using the logic in some of the articles you've linked to, we need to outlaw cars because of the number of deaths they cause. We also could conclude that traffic accidents are cause by skidmarks on the road. They throw out the baby with the bathwater. This is obviously short-sighted and opressive.
These trajedies that happen during circumcision are not caused by the simple act of circumcision, otherwise all circumcision would be harmful. They are caused by improperly performed procedures—human negligence, and as is so common in modern medicine, this is the true cause of the problem. And I do agree with you; there IS a problem. I simply don't agree on the broad-handed dictatorial solution suggested by many of the articles you link to.
Of course, if you study this out, you will find that when bad things happen, you nearly always find elements involving human negligence, yet, this is hardly considered and you seem to simply want to throw the baby out with the bathwater by saying, "we have to do away with this procedure completely" disregarding the benefits of the procedure and the rights we have to benefit from it. The solution is training and education and accountability, not elimination.
Demi once stated that circumcisium should be
outlawed and then in another post complained harshly that vaccines were being forced on her
by law. Do you see the problem with this logic. This is a completely and blatently hypocritical position.
The same holds true here. To attempt to legislate this right away would be forming a dictatorship. Circumcision is a parent's right and quite frankly, I'm glad my parents exercised it properly.
