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[–]cant_even 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I guess Weimar never really went away.

[–]Chipit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

How sad to do something like this to yourself just for the attention. The poor man had an emptiness in his life that this filled.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's likely to do with self harming as well as for attention.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He has mental health issues that need to be tended to, but instead they just let him hurt himself.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Free people are free to do foolish things. You do not need political rights to do or say popular things. Even slaves do that. People can do weird stuff only where the Proper Authorities leave them alone.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Who said anything about rights?

This sad man did what he did for the attention. Mutilating yourself isn't against the law, though maybe it should be.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Well it should be if you think correct behavior is important that freedom. I can see both sides of it.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You are deliberately misstating my position, putting words in my mouth I did not say. And you know you're doing it.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You do not seem to understand your own position. Free people are free to do stupid, unpopular things. That is what freedom is for. We do not need to do free to wise and popular things.

Really, if this guy wants to tattoo his eyeballs it is not anyone else's business.

[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It is the responsibility of big government to step in and stop people from making mistakes. People do not know what is good for them. They are morons. They do things like vote for uneducated populists. When people are harming their own interests through their own stupidity, the smart people need to step in to put a stop to it. People are bitches, we should stop pandering to the masses. That's the thing we need to learn from Trump, Brexit, Turkey, Russia. And they have to be better than the average Joe. Because that's the point we are at, problems are over the head of the average Joe.

What you're arguing for is libertarianism. Are you aware of that? How do you usually react to some bullethead spewing libertarian ideas in public?

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope. I just simple freedom. Society has no particular reason to be upset if someone wants to file his teeth into points. Neither do you. His behavior is not impinging on society.

Other than scaring the horses.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Daddy, this is Rolf. We're getting married!

A German man set a Guinness World Record for most body modifications -- and he says he isn't finished altering his body.

Rolf Buchholz said his enthusiasm for body modification didn't awaken until he got his first tattoo at age 40, but he soon became addicted and now has 516 body modifications, including tattoos, piercings and subdermal implants.

Buchholz previously set the world record for most piercings when they were officially counted at 453 -- including 158 around his lips alone.

Buchholz said he has added more body modifications since they were officially counted at 516, and he is still considering further modifications.

[–]Questionable 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

He should be considering help for mental health, and Guinness world records is in breach of their own policies of encouraging self harm.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They're encouraging this man, with clear mental health issues, to hurt himself just so they can make some extra money. That's fucked up.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You'd really marry a German ?

I can't quite believe it. Considering history and such.

[–]soyboy77 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh man, I wouldn't tattoo my eyeballs for all the money in the world...