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@ReekBlefs
For one thing, that's bullshit. i can point you to a tonne of people who ARE mentally scarred by this shit - check the norm link, for one. And though you can argue that mental scarring is worse than physical scarring, I'm not sure I would - quite aside from the mental scarring, trust issues, what have you, kids die from this process quite regularly. Blood loss, dirty equipment. And shit, did you read that story about the rabbi who gave those boys gential warts/herpes while circumcising them? Fucked UP.
But the bigger point is not whether it's something which causes mental harm or not. The point is that no-one has the right to force surgery with no medical benefit on the non-consenting, and anyone who says otherwise is merely arguing from a weird position of cultural relativity which is the EXACT same thing which allows Female Genital Mutilation to continue apace.
Seriously, kids, fix up.