My friend page has recently been on a kick about circumcision. My views on this are not why I am writing
this post, I write this to bring a point
to the surface. The topic of my post is
more on the word "Right".
Let's look closer at that word: Right.
A right is the same as a claim, however you never have the
earn it. You have a right to breath, a
right to imagine, a right to think. You
have the right to be. You are born with
these rights. All of them are good
things. You also have the right to live,
and the right to try and be the best you can be. All good things. The right to remove your shoes and walk in
the oceans. That is one of my favorite
rights. You even have the right to put
patches over your eyes and cotton in your ears so that you can live life deaf
and blindly: wait... why the hell would you want to do that? (maybe some sort
of religious harrowing? Which you have a
right to put yourself through, also.)
You have a right to eat nothing but multivitamins and food bulking
agents for the rest of your life-- now that sounds like a horrid fate!
So why would you not want to do those last two? Cause you don't want to. It's that simple. Now let's look at why you don't want to...
It's likely cause you live in a society where your parents
and elders said that is a bad idea. And you know what..? They are right. You enjoy your life because you receive
positive feedback from people, it feels good to be with the fold. I am not saying that you should conform, I'm
saying that it feels good to.
Now. Let's talk about
why you want rights. Why? you want a
right cause it feels good when you exercise it: it feels good to take off your
shoes and walk in the ocean. If it
doesn't feel good (like the above mentioned examples), and you have the right,
big deal? you won't exercise it anyway.
I do not have a foreskin. I feel
fine, I have no desire to get one. If I
had a "right" to grow one back (and the ability to do so) I would not
choose to regain my "right to genital Integrity".
Case Closed.
