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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: circumcision vs. infection
Message-ID: <1223@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 17:26:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 17:26:35 1985
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References: <1343@decwrl.UUCP> <530@cyb-eng.UUCP> <gloria.1071> <317@unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <317@unc.UUCP> fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) writes:
>
>Let me add that circucision is probably no more painful than ear-piercing.
>Probably less so, since circucision only cuts skin, while ear-piercing
>goes completely through the flesh.
>
>If you reject circumcision because of its pain, you probably should not
>pierce your daughter's ears, either.
>
>	Frank Silbermann

I'm not sure which would be more painful, but most civilized people would
not pierce their daughter's ears until the daughter said she wanted them 
pierced. I think the question is more concerned with trauma than pain. 
If you want something done then the pain is reduced to simple annoyance.


Rick Sellens
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