Originally posted by J Geoff:
Since you're using ear lobes as an analogy, then we can extract from this that you think that uncut boys would also endure "unnecessary teasing and ridicule" and being "laughed at."
Are you just ASSuming this? What makes you think at all that uncut boys are being teased and ridiculed because of that?? Kids tease each other about almost everything - but I never noticed any teasing in school over cut/uncut, short/long, hairy/hairless, or anything else in the lockerroom (except for boners 
). No, I'm using snipping ear lobes as an example of a minor type of surgery that a parent my choose to have performed on an infant so that his way in life might be made easier as he gets older.
In no way am I suggesting that an uncirumcised boy would be met with ridicule or teased by other boys.
I am merely comparing the
types of surgery -crcumcision with ear lobe snipping - and the fact that the failure to get either might result in negative consequences down the road.
I am
not suggesting that the consequences in either case would be the same.
Let's reverse it:
If I compared open heart surgery to save an infant's life with a C-setion to save an infant's life because the baby was being strangled by the umbilical cord, you wouldn't say say that I was saying that open heart surgery is as serious an operation as a C-section, would you?
Originally posted by J Geoff:
I only got started on this debate, here, because I was attacking Plaw's logic
And I fail to see where any of my logic was faulty.
You keep saying "P. Lawrence assumes this" and "P.Lawrence assumes
that", but the only
guesses (not assumptions) that I've made and opinions that I've expressed throughout here were guesses and opinions about what people think and why they sometimes do what they do.
I never made any of the assumptions that you keep saying I made.
