tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post6006520318771057939..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Nasty cutsEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-34339435702823547522011-09-08T18:08:28.636+12:002011-09-08T18:08:28.636+12:00Diekema, a professional medical ethicist and the h...Diekema, a professional medical ethicist and the holder of an academic appointment, told an NPR journalist that American intactivism is "emotional." This patronising remark did not do his reputation for decency any favours.Philip Meguirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-80694909383434057732011-09-08T18:06:21.987+12:002011-09-08T18:06:21.987+12:00Outrage over routine infant circumcision in the En...Outrage over routine infant circumcision in the English speaking countries has been building for nearly 30 years. One of the gravamen is that standard operating procedure is to dispense with anesthesia. Doctors and parents have allowed routine infant circs to be videoed, and YouTube does not delete the results. The screaming babies are a public relations disaster. The rational response of doctors would be to incorporate lidocaine into the protocol. And indeed, all Australian circs are done in this way; I know nothing about the sitch in Canada. While lidocaine use has gone from 0% to 30-50% over the past 15 years in the USA, it unaccountably isn't 98%+. Hence persisting USA medical practice is feeding the lay opposition to routine baby circ the best possible argument: the procedure is inhumane. I cannot explain this outcome, except to repeat an old saw of my mother's "The USA has an aristocracy. They call it the medical profession."Philip Meguirenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-80263019035936205642010-10-22T13:21:53.824+13:002010-10-22T13:21:53.824+13:00It's apparently more important to express righ...It's apparently more important to express righteous indignation than to save a girl's clitoris. As to slippery slope arguments - first, that is a logical fallacy; and second, it's a bit much to worry about a slope when we are already in the process of sliding down one.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-65385415659083559192010-10-22T10:19:47.152+13:002010-10-22T10:19:47.152+13:00That would be first best, Robert. But we can'...That would be first best, Robert. But we can't get there: it would just induce some parents to bring their child overseas for a worse form of the procedure.Eric Cramptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-20362995345699851202010-10-22T00:00:50.958+13:002010-10-22T00:00:50.958+13:00Why not let everyone choose once they turn 18?Why not let everyone choose once they turn 18?Robert Wiblinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954799089661405941noreply@blogger.com