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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What is with tattoos, anyway? I used to understand them when they actually made you different or an individual. But it seems to me that today, when someone gets a tattoo, it's just another act of conformity.
TM
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It's not just about rebellion or making yourself different. If you don't just consider western culture/tattoos, body art/mutilation goes on in many cultures as a means of decoration. In some cultures I think everyone of a certain gender/age gets scarred (not necessarily the same scars, but only minor variations). Women put rings around their neck and plates in their lips. It's like earrings and piercings - some part of it is decoration. It's all the same. It's just more taboo in western culture to mutilate your body - because of religious reasons - that's where the rebellion/non-conformity comes from. But people would still do it even if everyone had tattoos.
