I don't understand how parents are allowed to make major, irreversible, cosmetic medical decisions for children on their behalf. I'm not against circumcision, but it should be the choice of someone who is able to consent.
Genital mutilation is part of the general trend of subjugating children and depriving them of rights. Just because we've banned child labor in the US does not mean we've gone far enough.
No but the parents who did it may have been.
> subjugated and deprived of rights as children
Those who were mutilated without giving consent were harmed in a way that could be significant. I certainly would not consent to it as an adult.
Nor would I. However, if I could go back in time and retroactively give my parents consent to do it when I wouldn't remember it, then I would.
Parents are allowed to feed their children the way they want, to take their children to spots where they might get a disease, to pass on their own diseases to their children.
Parents are allowed even to pass on their genes, which may contain horrible psychological tendencies, to their children.
Musical tast, political views, habits and values are irreversible? Really?
Passing on genes, well we generally don't want to prevent that, because, contrary to forbidding circumcision, the cure would be worse than the disease.
That's the part when you introduce your values and your judgement and try to make it sound as if everybody agrees.
Their parentland (motherland or fatherland, though I suppose there may be other categories nowadays) should surely not allow them to do so.
Speaking of parentlands, why are they allowed to make major decisions for their childizens on their behalf? Even if some of the childizens approve, surely the others should be free to decide for themselves.
Unfortunately we cannot bring this issue to that parentless entity in charge, who has never had anyone else decide something on its behalf. It may in time decide to look into the matter and inform us of its decision.
Babies are remarkable in their ability to heal and adapt.