What if that person first decides other people also would look good with no arms and legs...
There is a pretty bright line between what you do to yourself, and what you would do to others. Often expressed as: Your freedom to swing your arm stops at my nose. So bringing that into the issues is just a straw-man/red herring argument trick. We're not - and no one did - talk about forcing/mandating others to do this. No one is talking about forcing anything on anyone, except Sharky who wants to punish non-conformity (I'm all for imprisoning those who can't conform to societies rules).
I guess my first (and really only question) about any of this, all of it, body mods/transsexuals/hippies/Amish and Mennonites/anybody and everybody outside the mainstream is.... What's it matter to you? If it's not harming you, interfering with your life, impacting you personally what's it matter if someone wants body tattoos making them look like a lizard, or a cat person, or if they want to live off the grid, or pursue a life structured around a different and differing set of values what's it matter to you? Is the lizard guy, or the cat person, or the TS person impacting your life? If not, what's it matter to you?
Worrying that some person might lump you in with 'those people' is useless as you can't control what other people think. And if it comes down to freedom or fear, I'll take freedom. Some people will always take things 'too far'. That's how we find out exactly were 'too far' is. And, usually after they are dead, they tend to be seen as pioneers, visionaries, artists and all that. But that's not why they do it, I think they do it because, like the summit of Everest, they do it because it's there. And still, in all the differences, we're all still more alike then we are different.
Besides, some people's purpose in life is to serve as a bad example and a warning.
Long ago blues guys were tossing around versions of this.
There ain't nothing I can do or nothing I can say
That folks don't criticize me
But I'm going to do just as I want to anyway
And don't care just what people say
If I should take the notion to jump into the ocean
Ain't nobody's business if I do
If I go to church on Sunday then cabaret all day Monday
Ain't nobody's business if I do
They were right then, they are still right.
Not everyone deserves a place in society.
Okey dokey, then, if that's the way you want to play it. Do we get to vote? What happens if your the first person voted off the island, is that OK? I mean we got big dog piles of people like you, one more or less ain't gonna make a big difference but how many tiger people do we have? ICID - infinite diversity in infinite combination: 'Twas ever thus.
