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Human Beings and The "No" Word

I recently had a conversation with a family member about elective surgeries; the idea of voluntarily going under a knife to change your body, some times right down to how it fundamentally exists in the world. I for one believe that each and every single adult of sound mind should be able and encouraged to make any and all alterations to there body that they want with out exception. And I mean that. ALL ALTERATIONS. If a cis-guy who 100% identifies as a guy wants breast implants then it should be just as accepted and normal as a cis-woman getting implants. If there's an artist who realizes that they could create art better/easier if they could position there hand just so then they should be able to elect to have a finger or two removed or reshaped. Tattoos, Implants, Amputation, Bone Shaving; I truly and honestly think that the ability to craft ones body the way they want it should be no-holds-barred.

Even among people who are into tattoos and body mods, this is often seen as an extreme take. Why would you be okay with some one cutting off a perfectly healthy body part? How could you say that some one who wants to change there body like that is of sound mind?

Two reasones

If there is one thing in this world that must remain absolute, it is bodily autonomy. If you do not have ownership of that which only effects yourself then you have nothing. I am not talking about individuals who are suffering from a delusion and who would deeply regret these choices once they get help; nor am I talking about some one who it not capable of understanding the pros and CONS to this decision. This is about the vast majority of people. People for whom no one but themselves can say how their life is meant to be. I do not live your life, so who am i to tell you that you don't know how you feel and what you want.

(and this is a odder opinion of mine) That change and creativity in every thing, even the way our bodies look and work, is so fundamentally human. Not a single change I'm talking about has come to us "naturally". Even something as simple as changing our hair color is something that arguably humans are not "supposed" to be able to do. There are a number of species that can change things about themselves almost at will. From octopi that can change there skin color/pattern at will to the goby (Lythrypnus pulchellus) that flexes from one sex to another. Yet as a species we decided that even mother nature could not tell us what we can and cant do. In every culture and every time, we have found ways to change how we look in ways that we shouldn't be able to. We don't just sit down and accept that "this is how life is meant to be". We find ways to bend realty to our desire and I think that's pretty fucking awesome. Over and over again, in all of recorded history we have looked to things that, from all previous experience, we should of learned were imposable. Yet just about every time we say "to hell with possibility we want to do this so we are going to find a way". We don't have wings but we figured out how to fly; we don't have gills but we found ways to spend days at a time deep under water. You can argue all you want that inventing the airplane or putting a man on the moon aren't comparable but it all comes from the same place. The deep and unending human need to push ourselves to extremes. To find a way to experience every little thing in this world regardless of whether or not we are "supposed" to be able to. That is something to celebrate and embrace. We as a species have never been good at being told No; I'm not denying that there have been some pretty awful things to come out of that but even more so, it means we have carved out a place in the world and are working to make it look just how we want. Why shouldn't we give the same freedom and exploration to our own bodies?

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I just spent 4 hours gardening.

I now understand why hobbits eat 7 meals a day and appreciate rest and relaxation. I have decided that hobbits are the hardest working people in middle earth.

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