[Cogadh na Sith]

Is nose piercing mutilation?

I said is a nose-job (you know, rhinoplasty) mutilation? Bonehead.... Don't change my words to make a point.

Is it?

What about circumcision?

[JMJ333]

Bonehead! Cut me some slack! I'm on another thread debating Hemingway's ghost and my poor mind is being stretched! :)

I'll answer your question, although it still doesn't make sticking a metal spike through your tongue anything less than mutilation.

I would say that plastic surgery that alters your body radically is a form of mutilation, although if a person wants to do so I won't stop them. The definition in webster's explained it well, I thought.

I don't believe circumcision is mutilation because all one is doing is cutting off foreskin. I don't see how that resembles the definition I provided.