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Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by momenti on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:02AM (#31750982)
What matters the most is the cohesion, functioning and productivity of society, which is unaffected by circumcision.

The notion of consent is arbitrary. You could also regard religious cults as primary, then you would need their consent to imposing your personal aesthetics.

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Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by LocalH on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @07:31AM (#31751495)
That mindset could be used to justify all sorts of barbarism. The beginning of humanity's downfall was when we invented "society"
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Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by momenti on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @09:19AM (#31752447)
Actual barbarism would impair the functioning and productivity of society. The harm in this case is so negligible that it does not matter.
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Re:Infants' sense of pain is recognized, finally (1987) by Doxin on Thursday June 16, 2022 @05:32AM (#31764061)
Smashing one in a hundred babies to death with a frying pan wouldn't impair the functioning or productivity of society either. Seems like a pretty poor way to measure barbarism to me.
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