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[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

To show how wonderfully tolerant this place is of nonsense:

In my utopia breast augmentation surgery will be outlawed (save for procedures done for illness reasons) on two grounds:

1) It's a waste of valuable resources*
2) They look bad

Discuss.


*In my dream utopia, healthcare is not only "free" (well, Universal) it's also mandatory

Can't have the sick bring down the healthy

Comments

[disolvd-girl.livejournal.com]

My right to patient autonomy should be stronger than your sense of aesthetics. Also, what about implants for women who've had mastectomies? Do they have to live with a body they dislike due to the surgery, or can they get implants and live as recipients of your scorn for not "looking right"?

[rasilio.livejournal.com]

In his defense he did include this...

"(save for procedures done for illness reasons)"

Which would seem to be covering that case.

However there is absolutely no logical basis to allow that and not allow women with an A cup or less to get augmentation to a B or C cup for psychological reasons.

In fact there is no logically consistent reason to allow for them to correct for mastectomy and not allow them for anyone else save for "I find them icky" and that is hardly a sound basis for designing a society.