To me it just felt too much like arrogant hubris to cut off something that nature, our evolution as Homo Sapiens, decided needed to be there. We don't take out tonsils and appendices "just because," but only if they cause a problem.
Andria
the children argument explained.
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To me it just felt too much like arrogant hubris to cut off something that nature, our evolution as Homo Sapiens, decided needed to be there. We don't take out tonsils and appendices "just because," but only if they cause a problem.
Andria
That would only be true if you see no value in a tradition dating back 4 to 5 millenia proven to have medical health benefits. Really, unlike female circumcision, is it innocuous?
But we have showers and soap abundance available to us now and I got 40% of my nerve ending snipped off along with every other male who got butchered. So Sex would be 40% better GRRRRRRRRRR I get mad evertime I think about it!!!!!
You are entitled to your opinion. Honestly the kid will never know. You can ask any male. They don't know.. unless it was a "hack" job.
Yes, my tonsils were taken out just because they may get infected. My parents thought it better. Again I only have a brief memory of it now. I just know some kid was in the hospital getting rabies shots... I was just glad at the time I wasn't him. Oh, I also got a cool model car to put together. I think a 57 chevy.. smelling the glue was cool too.
"But we have showers and soap abundance available to us now and I got 40% of my nerve ending snipped off along with every other male who got butchered. So Sex would be 40% better GRRRRRRRRRR I get mad evertime I think about it!!!!!"
And probably 40% quicker for you too.
Thats another one If you made it threw that time with you tonsils intact later in life you are less prone to getting sick cause you still have the first line of defense intact. All of these needless removal of body parts has side affects its one thing if its necessary but its been proven over and over again Doctors are prone to fads to treatments driven buy insurance not necessarily the best option.
Same here with my 8 year old. He has no interest in actually messing with them, just likes to watch me build them and explain how they work. Just like my job. I work with coax, fiber optic, and copper cable and distribution systems, so I've shown him a little bit about how those work. He seems genuinely interested in electronics and whatnot. Gonna be a smart kid. Lol.
I had mine removed at 14 because they were so swollen I couldn't breathe. Lol. I was in the doc with tonsillitis every couple months until he finally told me they were going to cut them out. I was the first one they used the new laser equipment on. Lol
This is precisely why I forbade it for my son -- when that tradition started, there wasn't hot and cold running showers and soap as we have now, plus they lived in a desert; I imagine a grain of sand under *that* would be a very bad thing!
I figured if my son ever wants that, he can handle it himself, with proper anesthesia -- they don't anesthetize newborns for that. 
It's really an American thing, for the most part, I think probably going back to the "progressive" movement of the 1930s.
Andria
I'm happy I didn't grow up as an amazon.
[sarcasm]But, with the proper tradition, imagine how many women could have been saved from breast cancer premature deaths? All for their own good? [/sarcasm]
That was the case for me, at 17... when the antibiotics were gone, 2 days later the tonsils had swelled up again -- I looked like I had the mumps!
So then they had to come out.Andria
Yea sometimes its needed for sure Im not saying it isnt. but when I was in grade school it was just what they did luckily my Doctor was a old guy in a small town who still made house calls. Would trade services for labor food ect... anyway He would go on and on about how Insurance and BP is corrupting the medical field o yea and Lawyers
I grew up in a very rural area.Really? Tonsils have value?
When I was a kid I got strep throat a lot.
The doctor told me next time they will remove my tonsils.
I never got strep throat again.
And I still have my tonsils.
Good for you bro way to hang on to them body parts!Really? Tonsils have value?
When I was a kid I got strep throat a lot.
The doctor told me next time they will remove my tonsils.
I never got strep throat again.
And I still have my tonsils.
I went about two years dealing with it before I let em do it. When it got to the point I couldn't swallow soup, I reluctantly agreed. LolThat was the case for me, at 17... when the antibiotics were gone, 2 days later the tonsils had swelled up again -- I looked like I had the mumps!
Andria
Really? Tonsils have value?
When I was a kid I got strep throat a lot.
The doctor told me next time they will remove my tonsils.
I never got strep throat again.
And I still have my tonsils.
I remember something similar about school, toothache and the dentist.
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