Your framing here gets me thinking about elective appendectomies. It’s a little piece of the body that doesn’t have any widely agreed-upon utility (some experts think it’s useful, others don’t), and it objectively does cause problems for some people if left in place, and sure there are some minor risks of infection or complication when removing it but there are risks to any surgery...
Appendectomies seem like a great way to test whether we’re at the crux of a pro-circumcision argument. If the ”...and that’s why it’s appropriate to remove this small and arguably useless body part” logic is sufficiently robust to get an appendectomy before rather than during the organ’s attempt to murder its owner, we’ll know the argument pulls real levers in the medical system.
Your framing here gets me thinking about elective appendectomies. It’s a little piece of the body that doesn’t have any widely agreed-upon utility (some experts think it’s useful, others don’t), and it objectively does cause problems for some people if left in place, and sure there are some minor risks of infection or complication when removing it but there are risks to any surgery...
Appendectomies seem like a great way to test whether we’re at the crux of a pro-circumcision argument. If the ”...and that’s why it’s appropriate to remove this small and arguably useless body part” logic is sufficiently robust to get an appendectomy before rather than during the organ’s attempt to murder its owner, we’ll know the argument pulls real levers in the medical system.