To be fair even this extract concedes that the medical benefits are barely significant. In general the convention is that you do not encourage a procedure if it does not have significant benefits, especially if it’s irreversible, especially on a subject who cannot consent to it. This one kind of gets the 3 strikes in term of medical ethics.
That being said it is very low-risk and generally done cleanly so i agree with you that it’s not the humanitarian thing that online circles want to make of it. It’s just one of those medical rituals.
To be fair even this extract concedes that the medical benefits are barely significant. In general the convention is that you do not encourage a procedure if it does not have significant benefits, especially if it’s irreversible, especially on a subject who cannot consent to it. This one kind of gets the 3 strikes in term of medical ethics.
That being said it is very low-risk and generally done cleanly so i agree with you that it’s not the humanitarian thing that online circles want to make of it. It’s just one of those medical rituals.