Vaccination shots are not permanent, cosmetic alterations of the body. Nurses describe babies getting very quiet after the procedure or they fall asleep and are very hard to wake up and this is attributed to shock. You cannot deny how painful it must be if you look at what they remove in the surgery and how. The foreskin is adhered to the glans and must be pried from it with forceps before it is crushed or cut off. Now after the surgery is done, the wounds and the very sensitive glans are exposed to the abrasion of diapers and full contact with urine and feces. So the pain continues for months.
Which is why the parents are busy applying Vaseline to it constantly, to keep it from getting irritated or infected. Just like they have to clean and swab the navel until the remnants of the umbilical cord falls off.
I'm curious to know then....do you think parents getting their kids' ears pierced is a crime against humanity? Because that's a permanent cosmetic alteration.
Y'know, I've gotta ask....do you have kids? Have you ever been a parent? Do you know what it's like to have to make difficult decisions on behalf of someone who can't make them on their own?
When my daughter was 2, my wife and I had to make the decision to take our child to a hospital where they anesthetised her (try watching someone gassing your child into unconsciousness without getting all sorts of conflicting emotions), then they cut her fucking eyeballs open, cut the muscles attached to them, and sewed them back together. When she woke up, she was frightened, confused, and in a lot of pain. She went completely berzerk. I had no idea a two-year old could rip out her own IV. But you know what? That's a decision we made on her behalf, because I'm pretty sure she didn't want to go blind in one eye later in life.
I didn't enjoy watching my son get circumcised, but that's my decision to make as a parent. Frankly, I'm fine with being circumcised, and I think he will be too. If he hates me for it later, that's on me. But that's strictly between him and us.