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Originally Posted by MTVN
Babies aren't able to make decisions about literally anything though, they can't choose the religion they're brought up as, they can't choose whether they're fed meat, they can't choose if their parents smoke or drink around them, they can't choose if they're breastfed etc. etc. There's a million and one decisions that parents can make or not make which have an impact on a baby's body and their life
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..yeah parents do make choices for their children, MTVN...because babies/children aren’t able to do that...but the choice of a religion is changeable, it’s not permanent when a child becomes an adult...and the same with diet lifestyle choices, even before reaching adulthood...parents can and often do still give choices to an older child, but with a small child...they may be brought up with a parental choice, which has been chosen for themselves...circumcision isn’t changeable when adulthood is reached, it’s permanent and can’t be ‘undone’ so that’s obviously why some feel quite strongly about it because it takes away ‘Possible future choice’ from a baby, which is felt to be important../yeah, smoking/drinking etc can also remove future choices as well if they cause harm to a baby..but they’re still slightly different in that they’re choosing for themselves but could have a direct affect on...?...as opposed to something done directly to the child and only the child, which circumcision is, with no involvement of personal choice for a parent’s own lifestyle...