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*if you're a Christian the Bible speaks against it.
*as you get older that thing is going to stretch out and look gross
* it's permanent. How many times have you liked an outfit or something, then like a year later you thought it looked silly? Tattoos for ever bro unless you got a lot of money to remove it, and I hear even then it doesn't always come all the way off.
* trust a tattoo artist? You're trusting someone to put an image on you perfectly the way you want without making one mistake, because if they do, you're stuck with that!
* if you're a female wanting to travel with a tattoo, now you have to worry about where you go, because some areas will kill you for having a tattoo, it's like disrespectful to their God Allah or something. If I'm traveling I wouldn't want to have to watch my back over some silly tattoo, it's not worth it
I believe everyone is already created beautifully, and no one needs a tattoo to enhance the beauty they already have. You don't need tattoos, jewelry, or expensive clothes to demonstrate that. Let your personality and character show it.
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The way you originally presented your argument made it seem like you had a very bigoted point of view.
*I can understand the christian argument, to a degree. However I think many christians do not think it is proper to follow the bible word to word. A lot of my christian friends have bible verses tattooed. How do you feel about that? If I was a christian the way I would see something like that, is that it would be keeping the word of God as a part of your body.
*Not if you properly maintain it. If you want to keep a tattoo looking good you will have to dish out a bit of money.
*Some things do follow you for your entire life.
*Well if you are going to get tattoo you should be hiring a good artist, and not some scratcher you find on the streets. Just like any other art as well-- you don't start with your final draft, if your artist has half a brain they are going to stencil it on first and then work off of that.
*If you are going to get killed for having a tattoo somewhere, that is probably not the best choice for travel in the first place, regardless of whether or not you have a tattoo.
I agree, everyone is created beautifully, and would be just fine without a tattoo. I think there are too many different circumstances to just say that you are weak or insecure for getting a tattoo.
A good friend of mine (much older than me) is thinking about getting his rank (CMSgt) in the Air Force tattooed on the back of his leg, why? Because he spent his whole life in the military, and is proud of his rank. It is something that he will have with him till the day he dies. In a circumstance like that I cannot comprehend how one could think that tattoo is a sign of insecurity.
Awhile ago I saw online someone talking about a tattoo they had, it'd take awhile to find it so I'm not gonna bother, but they worked in a job where they spend a lot of time speaking to others from foreign countries-- and so he hears a lot of foreign languages. He would get the word "love" added to his tattoo in each different language that he came across (he posted pictures and it looked really great). It was something he enjoyed and made him happy. I cannot comprehend how one could think that tattoo is a sign of insecurity.
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So it's okay for you to judge a person with a tattoo on their face? But you're okay with the rest of the body being tattooed? At least I'm consistent and equally disapprove of all tattoos? To me I would thinks it's worse to pick and choose which tattoos a person has is going to get YOUR approval. I would even take it a step further and say that's worse than a person getting a tattoo.
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I also agree with this.
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Someone in this thread said people might get tattoos because of their culture. Lol! That proves my point. If you're doing it for your culture you're doing it because you care what people think, you care what your culture thinks. A person that makes decisions based on culture is weak minded. Would you like examples? Sure.
Nazi soldiers did what they did because of their culture. Some are still being caught and out on trial to this day. And their defense is, " hey I was just following orders, doing what everybody else was doing, bla bla bla"
How about slavery in the United States? I'm sure the slave owners thought, " hey I'm not doing anything wrong. Everybody has slaves. It's part of the culture, it's not illegal, my slave owner buddy got a tattoo, tweeddle dee tweedle dumb"
So the culture reason for getting a tattoo is a weak argument to me . IMHO I feel that it actually proves my point that it's a weakness, because the person is making decisions based on culture instead of their own free mind.
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Poor examples, are you really trying to compare eugenics, genocide, human trafficking, and slavery to body modification? Furthermore nazism wasn't a part of germanic culture, it was a twisted political movement.
Also if you are going to blatantly talk about how your base reasoning for not supporting tattoos is due to your religion, maybe saying that making decisions based off of a religious culture is not the best thing to do. Just like you have a choice to follow what your religion says, so did anyone else who had tattoos for cultural reasons.
I don't think you have a clear perspective of what I meant by "cultural reasons", do you believe in God because you care what others think? No? Maybe you should try and relate your own beliefs and motives to those of others.