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I don’t understand why people are against plastic surgery.
We’re a society obsessed with being healthy and looking good, yet we still harbor this negativity toward people who get plastic surgery. We consider it “vain” and “selfish.” I don’t understand why these are necessarily bad things, especially when people are judgmental when it comes to appearance.
A good appearance supposedly makes life easier. Studies, I’m sure, show that attractive people, people with good hygiene, and people who just make an attempt to look good get better reactions from other people than nasty people. And with Americans living longer and hoping to work longer, it only makes sense to look the best you can for as long as you can.
Cosmetic surgery is a great advancement and there should be no shame in getting it.
Honestly, there is no difference between someone having “cosmetic surgery” and “reconstructive surgery” when only form is improved, but function is not also improved.
Take for instance a person whose face was horribly damaged and they no longer have a nose. Why try to rebuild the nose when it won’t function any better than the exposed nasal cavity? This surgery will be basically for cosmetic reasons; so the person will look normal. That’s the rationale. We won’t judge people for trying to look normal. We judge people for trying to look better than their normal.
The difference is our conception. One is to restore us while the other is to change us. However, both seek to improve our appearance. What’s wrong with that?
I don’t understand why people say to people who are getting plastic surgery, “I don’t think you need it. I like how you look now.” Healthy people who get plastic surgery do not get it to please others. They get it to please themselves. They don’t care if you’re okay with their appearance. Something about their appearance is lacking to them.
Watching TV shows like MTV’s “I Want a Famous Face,” I see people arguing with those about to get plastic surgery all the time. I don’t agree that you should seek to change yourself to look like celebrities, but if you want features reminiscent of a star’s, that should be fine.
The one thing that annoys me off about those shows is that they always show a negative plastic surgery experience. Most of them are not the health risks involved (some are, of course), but the problems are caused by that the fact people either seek a procedure recklessly by picking procedures that will not enhance their appearance or go to lackluster surgeons, usually the first name they find in a book and didn’t do their research on his abilities. If you are going to go to a doctor, you need to find out about them, regardless of why you’re going to them. Mediocre doctors don’t yield excellent results.
Plastic surgery is essentially incredibly safe with great results. However, you must pick a procedure your body can handle and a deft surgeon who can give you the results you want. You absolutely don’t want a bargain surgeon.
You might say Michael Jackson is an argument against plastic surgery. However, he has a surgical addiction and a mental illness. Normal people don’t have this psychological condition. Normal people get one nose job (if it’s successful) and never need another one.
Like all things, cosmetic surgery has its crazies like people who want bizarre procedures to get attention or those who become addicted to surgery. Excluding these people, cosmetic surgery has the potential to positively change lives.
People complained that MTV’s show “I want a famous Face” sends the wrong message. I think the only wrong message it sent was that you should try to look like someone famous. I think the message it sent about cosmetic surgery was good - it’s an option if you really want to change how you look.
Many people would applaud the obese for getting gastric bypass surgery, because it improves their physical health. But I ask, “What about mental health and body image?” Cosmetic surgery is an indispensable tool for some ugly people to improve their feelings toward themselves.
You’d tell people with big or odd-shaped noses to love themselves, because real beauty is on the inside and changing your nose won’t change you. However, you’d tell someone who had their nose demolished in an accident to have it repaired. Why?
Tell someone missing half their face just “to love themselves as they are” because their beauty is on the inside. Is this a just and compassionate thing to tell someone?
Now, tell someone who grew up being ridiculed for some characteristic that is solely cosmetic but unusual none-the-less that they should love themselves in spite of that one thing that bothers them. Tell them that anybody who won’t consider dating them because of it or judge them because of it “are shallow” and they’d be better off not knowing these shallow people. Tell this person to love herself as she is.
Now, tell someone who was in a car accident and is deformed that beauty is only skin deep. And that the odd stares he’ll get are just ignorant people’s shallowness. And really, he’s better off knowing who his real friends are, because they won’t shudder in disgust when they look at him.
But why should someone have to live with either? The answer is they shouldn’t and they don’t have to. However, I don’t think enough people like that answer.
People that try to counsel others out of plastic surgery usually say, “I don’t think you need it.” That’s not the point. The individual wanting the surgery wants it for herself.
People lie to make themselves feel better. We are not all beautiful. Most of you are barely passable. Beauty being on the inside is just a lie ugly people perpetuate to make themselves feel better. We are all shallow in numerous ways. I almost think it’s shallow for “deep” people to not like “shallow” people, because they don’t appreciate shallow people for being themselves.
Some people bring God or nature into such concerns over cosmetic procedures. I was watching a news show about growth hormones, which can be seen as an unnecessary treatment. This kid whose growth was below average was taking them and the reporter asked, “Don’t you think this is going against what nature intended for you?”
Why does that matter?
It obviously doesn’t, because we go against nature every day of our lives. People who wear glasses, for instance, go against nature. If God wanted you to see, he would have given you better vision. However, you will continue to wear glasses. You do it and justify it for purposes of “needing glasses to see and function.” Maybe nature intended you not to function so well. Maybe nature intended you to be near blind and die from this defect. Are you ready to take off those glasses and accept what nature intended for you? I doubt you are.
What about sterile individuals who seek to have their own children through fertility treatments? I think God has given no better decree that you should not breed, perhaps not even care for children, when your capacity to have children is denied you. Yet, I think society has less negativity towards fertility treatments as they do with basic plastic surgery. Fertility is basically “unnecessary” especially when adoption exists.
Yet, consider transsexuals. We justify sex-reassignment because people should be able pursue the life they want, and if they feel comfortable living as a woman instead of a man, they should be allowed to pursue the surgical option in achieving this end. When you meet a transsexual, it makes you wonder what nature intended. But shouldn’t we counsel all transsexuals against the surgery based on how they’re giving into shallow people? Only shallow people wouldn’t see a man for the woman he really is on the inside.
Plus, it goes against God. Yada yada yada.
To whine about playing God is to ignore what humans do.
We self-create. We fix defects. We search to improve our condition. Maybe in the long run of our existence as a species, it’s wrong not to let defective humans be culled from the herd, but humans find more value in being able to live their life and give more life to others than in being able to survive as a species. Perhaps genetic engineering holds the answer to the problem of surviving as a species while respecting life.
Yet, utilizing science to alter defects seems justifiable until someone wants a cosmetic procedure to correct what they perceive is a defect in their appearance. Then it’s considered pure vanity and has negative aspects.
If you hate it, you can change it. Hell, you can even take out a loan with excellent financing, sometimes little to no interest. So, you too can afford cosmetic surgery.
One of the greatest freedoms we possess as individuals living in the West is the freedom of self-creation. We can attempt to defy what nature and nurture “intended” for us and become the individual we would like to be. Plastic surgery is man’s way to defy nature and begin to self-create ourselves in the exterior image we want.
All I’m trying to say is that you should stop being ugly. Please. You scare children.
We’re a society obsessed with being healthy and looking good, yet we still harbor this negativity toward people who get plastic surgery. We consider it “vain” and “selfish.” I don’t understand why these are necessarily bad things, especially when people are judgmental when it comes to appearance.
A good appearance supposedly makes life easier. Studies, I’m sure, show that attractive people, people with good hygiene, and people who just make an attempt to look good get better reactions from other people than nasty people. And with Americans living longer and hoping to work longer, it only makes sense to look the best you can for as long as you can.
Cosmetic surgery is a great advancement and there should be no shame in getting it.
Honestly, there is no difference between someone having “cosmetic surgery” and “reconstructive surgery” when only form is improved, but function is not also improved.
Take for instance a person whose face was horribly damaged and they no longer have a nose. Why try to rebuild the nose when it won’t function any better than the exposed nasal cavity? This surgery will be basically for cosmetic reasons; so the person will look normal. That’s the rationale. We won’t judge people for trying to look normal. We judge people for trying to look better than their normal.
The difference is our conception. One is to restore us while the other is to change us. However, both seek to improve our appearance. What’s wrong with that?
I don’t understand why people say to people who are getting plastic surgery, “I don’t think you need it. I like how you look now.” Healthy people who get plastic surgery do not get it to please others. They get it to please themselves. They don’t care if you’re okay with their appearance. Something about their appearance is lacking to them.
Watching TV shows like MTV’s “I Want a Famous Face,” I see people arguing with those about to get plastic surgery all the time. I don’t agree that you should seek to change yourself to look like celebrities, but if you want features reminiscent of a star’s, that should be fine.
The one thing that annoys me off about those shows is that they always show a negative plastic surgery experience. Most of them are not the health risks involved (some are, of course), but the problems are caused by that the fact people either seek a procedure recklessly by picking procedures that will not enhance their appearance or go to lackluster surgeons, usually the first name they find in a book and didn’t do their research on his abilities. If you are going to go to a doctor, you need to find out about them, regardless of why you’re going to them. Mediocre doctors don’t yield excellent results.
Plastic surgery is essentially incredibly safe with great results. However, you must pick a procedure your body can handle and a deft surgeon who can give you the results you want. You absolutely don’t want a bargain surgeon.
You might say Michael Jackson is an argument against plastic surgery. However, he has a surgical addiction and a mental illness. Normal people don’t have this psychological condition. Normal people get one nose job (if it’s successful) and never need another one.
Like all things, cosmetic surgery has its crazies like people who want bizarre procedures to get attention or those who become addicted to surgery. Excluding these people, cosmetic surgery has the potential to positively change lives.
People complained that MTV’s show “I want a famous Face” sends the wrong message. I think the only wrong message it sent was that you should try to look like someone famous. I think the message it sent about cosmetic surgery was good - it’s an option if you really want to change how you look.
Many people would applaud the obese for getting gastric bypass surgery, because it improves their physical health. But I ask, “What about mental health and body image?” Cosmetic surgery is an indispensable tool for some ugly people to improve their feelings toward themselves.
You’d tell people with big or odd-shaped noses to love themselves, because real beauty is on the inside and changing your nose won’t change you. However, you’d tell someone who had their nose demolished in an accident to have it repaired. Why?
Tell someone missing half their face just “to love themselves as they are” because their beauty is on the inside. Is this a just and compassionate thing to tell someone?
Now, tell someone who grew up being ridiculed for some characteristic that is solely cosmetic but unusual none-the-less that they should love themselves in spite of that one thing that bothers them. Tell them that anybody who won’t consider dating them because of it or judge them because of it “are shallow” and they’d be better off not knowing these shallow people. Tell this person to love herself as she is.
Now, tell someone who was in a car accident and is deformed that beauty is only skin deep. And that the odd stares he’ll get are just ignorant people’s shallowness. And really, he’s better off knowing who his real friends are, because they won’t shudder in disgust when they look at him.
But why should someone have to live with either? The answer is they shouldn’t and they don’t have to. However, I don’t think enough people like that answer.
People that try to counsel others out of plastic surgery usually say, “I don’t think you need it.” That’s not the point. The individual wanting the surgery wants it for herself.
People lie to make themselves feel better. We are not all beautiful. Most of you are barely passable. Beauty being on the inside is just a lie ugly people perpetuate to make themselves feel better. We are all shallow in numerous ways. I almost think it’s shallow for “deep” people to not like “shallow” people, because they don’t appreciate shallow people for being themselves.
Some people bring God or nature into such concerns over cosmetic procedures. I was watching a news show about growth hormones, which can be seen as an unnecessary treatment. This kid whose growth was below average was taking them and the reporter asked, “Don’t you think this is going against what nature intended for you?”
Why does that matter?
It obviously doesn’t, because we go against nature every day of our lives. People who wear glasses, for instance, go against nature. If God wanted you to see, he would have given you better vision. However, you will continue to wear glasses. You do it and justify it for purposes of “needing glasses to see and function.” Maybe nature intended you not to function so well. Maybe nature intended you to be near blind and die from this defect. Are you ready to take off those glasses and accept what nature intended for you? I doubt you are.
What about sterile individuals who seek to have their own children through fertility treatments? I think God has given no better decree that you should not breed, perhaps not even care for children, when your capacity to have children is denied you. Yet, I think society has less negativity towards fertility treatments as they do with basic plastic surgery. Fertility is basically “unnecessary” especially when adoption exists.
Yet, consider transsexuals. We justify sex-reassignment because people should be able pursue the life they want, and if they feel comfortable living as a woman instead of a man, they should be allowed to pursue the surgical option in achieving this end. When you meet a transsexual, it makes you wonder what nature intended. But shouldn’t we counsel all transsexuals against the surgery based on how they’re giving into shallow people? Only shallow people wouldn’t see a man for the woman he really is on the inside.
Plus, it goes against God. Yada yada yada.
To whine about playing God is to ignore what humans do.
We self-create. We fix defects. We search to improve our condition. Maybe in the long run of our existence as a species, it’s wrong not to let defective humans be culled from the herd, but humans find more value in being able to live their life and give more life to others than in being able to survive as a species. Perhaps genetic engineering holds the answer to the problem of surviving as a species while respecting life.
Yet, utilizing science to alter defects seems justifiable until someone wants a cosmetic procedure to correct what they perceive is a defect in their appearance. Then it’s considered pure vanity and has negative aspects.
If you hate it, you can change it. Hell, you can even take out a loan with excellent financing, sometimes little to no interest. So, you too can afford cosmetic surgery.
One of the greatest freedoms we possess as individuals living in the West is the freedom of self-creation. We can attempt to defy what nature and nurture “intended” for us and become the individual we would like to be. Plastic surgery is man’s way to defy nature and begin to self-create ourselves in the exterior image we want.
All I’m trying to say is that you should stop being ugly. Please. You scare children.