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Circumcision of a person without consent and without immediate medical reason should be made illegal. It's unbelievable in this day and age that it occurs and is seemed as normal, and yet people scream foul play over female circumcision.

Barbaric practice, needs to go. We don't accept unnecessary female circumcision, there is no reason to accept male. It offers significant drawbacks and no benefits to a healthy baby born into a western civilised country.

If you're likely to live and have sex with members of a population in which HIV is rife, i could see it being used to save a couple of lives out of every few hundred thousand. However if you live in a country where HIV is uncommon, circumcision is not any kind of protection - the child is not going to grow up using circumcision as a defence against STDs especially when trivial solutions exist that provide 99.999% protection. So you've taken away a wealth of nerve endings in the skin and furthermore deadened the sensitivity of the tip by exposing it to 'rough' surfaces, but there's no benefit.

That "prevention" method (above) only works in the same way as pre-emptive breast removal works. You'd only recommend it to those massively at risk.

Barbaric definitely is the word. And archaic. And the words "improper use of statistics and research to come to a poor conclusion". A bit like the fallacy of autism/immunisation that people bang on about to this very day despite it being bollocks of the highest order. Christ, even if it were true (which it categorically isn't), i'd rather my kid have ASD than die from polio or any of the other countless diseases that literally killed millions before being eradicated through immunisation.

>> ^Phreezdryd:

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Fixed and thanks.

Yep, I have been into demo scene since 1993. Upvoted already.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
hey ant - I almost never pimp my own vids like this, but when I did a search before posting, I noticed you're a fan of ASD as well (one a very few at VS), so I thought you might like to see this one. It's quite different than their usual stuff, but definitely worth watching.

Nah, not really offended. Just disagree. Seeya!
>> ^RhesusMonk:

Well, we're not going to get anywhere. Clearly I've offended your well-honed psychological sensibilities by challenging your post that stated severe electroshock therapy is the ONLY treatment in some situations, written in the context of a news story where no justification whatsoever was given.
My brush painted as broadly as the words: "when aversive conditioning is used in the developmental setting, it is as a last resort and the aversive stimulus is sparing and lenient;" words with which you seem to agree. The side-effects to be avoided were mentioned in both our posts, and I should have used the word "or" where I used "and." What a semantic boner!
I don't know what your background is (?), but aversive punishment may be a way of referring to a practice in some fields, but in the context of ASDs and behavioral analysis, I have never heard the term used. Also, when autistics injure themselves, they do so when exhibiting self-stimulaing behaviors. I have been highly discouraged from using the term self-injuriious, as it is an outcome-based term that draws the focus away from the behavior's motivators.
As to the ad hom, if you took offense to my statement on the lack of creativity or my reference to Nurse Ratched, be assured I was referring to all those who upvoted your comment as well. Electroshock therapy is arcane and unimaginative in the educational context.

>> ^berticus:
>> ^RhesusMonk:
... "self-injurious" behavior (which is actually called self-stimulating behavior). ...
This is simply not true.

Well, we're not going to get anywhere. Clearly I've offended your well-honed psychological sensibilities by challenging your post that stated severe electroshock therapy is the ONLY treatment in some situations, written in the context of a news story where no justification whatsoever was given.

My brush painted as broadly as the words: "when aversive conditioning is used in the developmental setting, it is as a last resort and the aversive stimulus is sparing and lenient;" words with which you seem to agree. The side-effects to be avoided were mentioned in both our posts, and I should have used the word "or" where I used "and." What a semantic boner!

I don't know what your background is (?), but aversive punishment may be a way of referring to a practice in some fields, but in the context of ASDs and behavioral analysis, I have never heard the term used. Also, when autistics injure themselves, they do so when exhibiting self-stimulaing behaviors. I have been highly discouraged from using the term self-injuriious, as it is an outcome-based term that draws the focus away from the behavior's motivators.

As to the ad hom, if you took offense to my statement on the lack of creativity or my reference to Nurse Ratched, be assured I was referring to all those who upvoted your comment as well. Electroshock therapy is arcane and unimaginative in the educational context.



>> ^berticus:

>> ^RhesusMonk:
... "self-injurious" behavior (which is actually called self-stimulating behavior). ...
This is simply not true.

>> ^NicoleBee:

Nice particle effecting!


Did you watch the real demo or the video capture one? I watched the demo. It was so nice! I want a screen saver!

Duane Alexander, MD, former Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), current Senior Scientific Advisor to NIH's Fogarty International Center. Interview, October 2009:

One question [is] whether there is a subgroup in the population that, on a genetic basis, is more susceptible to some vaccine characteristic or component than most of the population, and may develop an ASD in response to something about vaccination. The trigger could be some adverse or cross-reacting response to a vaccine component or a mitochondrial disorder increasing the adverse response to vaccine-associated fever.

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@Mcboinkens

Asperger's didn't "come" from anywhere in the sense that it's not a fabricated contrivance, nor is it dismissable as a malfunction of personality. The condition existed long before it was defined, recognised and understood. Parkinson's disease, although entirely unrelated to ASD, also existed well before it was defined in the early 1800s. People can often be found to view Asperger's in a similar way to ADHD; a made-up condition to explain and justify deficient characters. This can always be attributed to shoddy human empathy and solipsism.

The trouble with the autistic spectrum, and Asperger's also, is that it's... Well, a spectrum. The symptoms and their intensity vary enormously between different people and no one, generalized definition seems to work very well. There's often said to be a triad of deficiencies, though; social interaction, communication and creativity.

Your classmate sounds like a fucking jackass. Very gifted? Please. It's true that a number of figures in history have, or may have had, Asperger's or a related condition, but this is incidental. Autistic people often like to exaggerate the "beneficial" consequences of autism as a means of justifying themselves to others. I regard it both as valuable neurodiversity and, in most cases, disability.

Just some advice, though... If your intent is to avoid being disrespectful, you should also be avoiding words like "disease".

But who gives a fuck.

ASD

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^Gallowflak:
I'm sorry, but if he has Asperger's rather than full-on ASD, I'm the fucking Antipope.

@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant
That one, and because I'm not sure why.


I already did that yesterday.