I don't know what to say about this! [modified]

[Pierre Leclercq]

Come on! who 1 voted this message? For sure, someone who has absolutely no sense of humour...

You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.

[Christian Graus]

Well, what 16 yo boy DOESN'T think about what it would be like to have, erm, girl parts ?

Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

[Mustafa Ismail Mustafa]

Not a clue. I left that hateful country years ago.

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[leckey 0]

But if it makes a person feel better about themselves, gives them more confidence, how is that any different than any other elective cosmetic surgery?

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[Shog9 0]

leckey wrote:

But if it makes a person feel better about themselves, gives them more confidence, how is that any different than any other elective cosmetic surgery?

It isn't. That's kinda my point, regardless of how the subjects feel about themselves afterward - it is entirely superfluous, like getting a face lift or dying your hair. Somewhat more destructive of course, but no less pointless. If an adult wants to put themselves through that out of hope for some nebulous sense of self, then whatever; adults do all sorts of bizarre things to themselves trying to find happiness... a few even claim to have actually managed it. But to subject or encourage an adolescent in your care to such an operation... that seems cruel, bordering on malicious. I caught an interview a few weeks back with some guy whose step-mom had him lobotomized when he was 12. Chilling stuff. He doesn't blame her, sounded almost to have blamed himself for being such an unruly child as to have left her with little choice. We have, i believe, an almost limitless ability to justify and encourage the brutal aspects of our nature, shrouding our true motivations in the noblest of words. It is only after time fades these words into quaint anachronisms that we recognize our predecessors' bestial acts for what they were.

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