In the 1990s, a research project discoverd something about circumcision.
It HURTS.
It doesn’t just hurt, it is a major trauma.
Before then circumcision was performed without anesthetics of any kind. You see, this was an infant, and an anesthetic might be BAD for him.
Agony was OK.
Agony is always OK for kids. When I was coming up, the kid losing his teeth was considered funny. If any adult had to have a tooth extracted, he got novacaine and lots of it. But the kid was considered a dribbling coward if he didn’t tie his tooth to a door and have it closed or yank it out himself.
Each year a kid attends school for 180 days. Each of those days he had at least two hours of Study Hall. That is 360 hours a year that an active child must sit quietly and raise his hand if he wants to go to the bathroom.
If an adult is required to sit in a jail for over 48 hours without an actual charge being levied against him, he can get a writ of habeas corpus to get out. Unless it’s murder, he can get bail.
You don’t make an adult sit there for 360 hours a year without going to court, big time.
But the bottom line is simple. So the infant doesn’t like the agony of cirumcision? What’s he going to do about it? We’re bigger than he is.
And we’re bigger than that brat in the study hall, too.
#1 by kris on 08/06/2005 - 8:20 pm
You make some excellent points. I agree with alot of what you’ve said and wouldn’t mind seeing you push out on some of these issues a little bit.