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Consensual Mutilation
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Interesting story. What do you think - if you give permission for someone to cut your ear off, should they be prosecuted for doing it?
Interesting story. What do you think - if you give permission for someone to cut your ear off, should they be prosecuted for doing it?
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Ignoring the current law, which I think is what the OP is aiming at, surely the problem, as Caligo has highlit above is where is the line?
Even for the law as it is where is the line? Them big hoops in the ears surely are a mutilation, one could argue Tats and ear piercings are too.
I dont know the answer but surely if people want these things then why should I stop them(yes even chopping a lugs off). Providing they are not short of a shilling then it is their body not mine. Perhaps simple licencing would go a way to solving the problem?
Even for the law as it is where is the line? Them big hoops in the ears surely are a mutilation, one could argue Tats and ear piercings are too.
I dont know the answer but surely if people want these things then why should I stop them(yes even chopping a lugs off). Providing they are not short of a shilling then it is their body not mine. Perhaps simple licencing would go a way to solving the problem?
I'm not sure myself. On the one hand I see it as a form of mental illness and wonder if people need to be protected from themselves.
On the other, if some one wants to cut their tongue it half and they seem otherwise rational, why shouldn't they. As long as they don't start wanting it done on the NHS, who am I to object.
On the other, if some one wants to cut their tongue it half and they seem otherwise rational, why shouldn't they. As long as they don't start wanting it done on the NHS, who am I to object.
This surgeon wasn't punished for amputating healthy legs at the request of his patients
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I see this as two separate situations -
the first is one where this gentleman is providing surgical proceedures for which he is neither trained or equipped, and as such, he should be prosecuted for doing so, and that appears to be the legal issue under which charges have been brought.
The morality of allowing people to be mutilated at their own consent is rather more difficult to argue definitively.
On the one hand, do we allow adults to make choices affecting their own bodies, or do we intervene to save people from themselves?
It's not a cut-and-dried (sorry!) situation, and I am sure the debate will continue.
the first is one where this gentleman is providing surgical proceedures for which he is neither trained or equipped, and as such, he should be prosecuted for doing so, and that appears to be the legal issue under which charges have been brought.
The morality of allowing people to be mutilated at their own consent is rather more difficult to argue definitively.
On the one hand, do we allow adults to make choices affecting their own bodies, or do we intervene to save people from themselves?
It's not a cut-and-dried (sorry!) situation, and I am sure the debate will continue.
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