[ExI] Circumcision

[William Flynn Wallace]

 (why oh why are not American
teens exploring the limits of that particular absurdity?  (I am so
disappointed in them.))  spike

Huh?  Please explain  bill w

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:52 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> Of BillK
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> >...I have the feeling that all this philosophising about pain and
> suffering
> is all very well and good.
> But it will get thrown out as soon as raging toothache, bad migraine or
> gallstone blockage pain arrives.
> When you are writhing in pain, screaming for codeine, philosophy somehow
> doesn't seem that important.  ;)  BillK
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> Well said sir.  Nowthen, why do we subject babies to it?  The justification
> questionable at best, when the risks are well known.
>
> I had an idea.  In those benighted times of my birth (60s) I would estimate
> 97 percent of the students had circumcision (based on about one guy in a
> typical PE class of 30 was uncut.)  OK so the argument was made back then
> that it is bad if boys get teased (he wasn't as far as I know.)  So what
> happens in the transition, when the cut ones become the minority?  Are they
> then singled out as undesirable religious cult minorities?
>
> So now since we are being all sensitive and gender all-inclusive, let us
> create a non-showers PE option in high schools.  Some high schools already
> accept transfers of credits down from the local community college which
> have
> no-showers PE classes, such as bowling for instance.  That would solve a
> problem of what to do when some girls don't want to shower in the presence
> of some dude who claims he feels female inside (why oh why are not American
> teens exploring the limits of that particular absurdity?  (I am so
> disappointed in them.))
>
> Or... we make accommodations that PE can be taken last period of the day,
> so
> that they have a practical option to not dress or shower in the locker room
> (they can just go home afterwards.)
>
> Or... we build a third locker room for other (I do admit I am inherently
> curious enough to go into that one.)
>
> Or... since we think Canada is so enlightened, let us make a law that
> medical insurance companies have the option of not paying for circumcision
> (and I don't understand why they would now (It isn't a medical necessity.))
>
> Or... we create a circumcision awareness Kickstarter, buy ads on
> Babies-R-Us, explain to young mothers that this procedure is unnecessary
> and
> brutal, a throwback for when it was used to perpetrate mass murder (Genesis
> ch 34.)
>
> Or...  I have more ideas, but that boy I rescued needs attention.
>
> spike
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