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[–]WildApples 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They are not discussing plastic surgery; they are discussing completely forbidding plastic surgery. I disagree with plastic surgery for the reasons the OP mentioned, but I completely disagree with prohibiting it. The problem is not the availability of the surgery anyway; the problem is with a culture that is oversaturated with youthful, hypersexualized images of women and which continually sends the message that you are not good enough the way you are.

I don't want to force my beliefs on others any more than I want people to force their beliefs on me, and I agree with the commenter who mentioned that it would create a bad precedent for women if we empowered government to intervene and make decisions about women's bodies for us. I will never support anything that requires supplanting women's own will and control of their bodies with government's. That is the same reason I don't support things like mask and vaccine mandates (not a popular opinion these days, I know, but my eyes are on the long-term repercussions). Once you set the precedent that government has the authority to make decisions about your body, political interests groups are going to use that power to impose their will on vulnerable classes (e.g. banning abortion and birth control for women, policing what pregnant women eat and do and criminalizing behavior deemed harmful to the fetus, forcibly transitioning a child over the parents' objections, etc.).

[–]arcticbasket 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. Adults should be treated as adults. They should have the option.