1. Circumcision is not irreversible.
2. Even if it were, it is not “mutilation;” if anything, it’s an improvement.
3. It bestows at least one benefit, possibly two.
4. If child circumcision were a crime, All my ancestors and myself and my eldest son are all guilty. Generation after generation of Jews, Muslims and African animists have practiced child circumcision. But now—watch out! San Franciscans suddenly got a hard-on to ban it, so thousands of years of tradition have to go out the window. Nonsense. “Those that care not for tradition will care even less for their posterity.”-Edmund Burke.