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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

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

What's the meaning of mandatory, i.e. if poor people don't go to the doctor, what action would your utopian government take?

[spaz-own-joo.livejournal.com]

Body autonomy is a pretty big price to pay for the economic and lifestyle benefits. I'm not rejecting it out of hand, but are you prepared to forcibly treat people who don't want to be treated? What of the "edge cases" where there's some controversy over what does or does not constitute an illness? It wasn't so long ago that homosexuality was in the DSM, after all.

[reflaxion.livejournal.com]

That's it. I'm staging a coup on your ass.

[bord-du-rasoir.livejournal.com]

Also, what do you do when people start getting "back alley" boob jobs?

It'll be like pre-Roe-v.-Wade days or prohibition of alcohol/drugs. Making stuff people want illegal has significant unintended consequences.

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

You asked for the tag.

[404.livejournal.com]

You can take my love of bountiful fun bags out of my cold dead hands.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

There was a Gray's Anatomy episode about a guy who got a chest implants (he wanted a manly chest with big muscular breasteseses). He was the joke of the hospital. Was that sexist though? I've heard of some bodybuilders having calf implants (due to poor genetics, they get them BIG MOOERS), BUT I think that disqualifies them from winning a contest.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

I'm getting old and my butt is disappearing; in your utopia would implants (so I can keep my pants up) be acceptable?

[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"?

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

I call waste of valuable ink.

[verytwistedmind.livejournal.com]

"I'm all for women who get plastic surgery, because plastic surgery allows you to make your outer appearance resemble your inner appearance — fake..."

- Daniel Tosh

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Your utopia sucks ass. And not because of the boob thing, but because of the "mandatory" part.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I have been pondering where to display this incredibly sexist commercial.

[sailor-moonbeam.livejournal.com]

as a chick, i think not allowing women to get boob jobs is lame. boobs are amazing! some like them big, some like them small, some like the natural, and some like them fake - but in the end, it's our bodies and our choice!

[chemchick.livejournal.com]

So breast reductions are A-OK in your utopia?

Cosmetic surgery...

[sophia-sadek.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for people who have such an attachment to changing their physical appearance that they would go so far as to have a breast enhancement operation. Is there any health care provision in your youtopia for treating a mental disorder such as vanity?

In the case of Menachem Begin, the "plastic operation" was necessary to fool people into thinking that he had changed his appearance and to give the British a rationale for not finding him.

[root-fu.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between forcing someone to believe in a religion and forcing someone to believe in an ideology that says breast implants = evil?

If I ever hear about an anti-breast enhancement cult, I'll know who to blame.

I saw the nonsense tag

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Dude, no dis...I really appreciated her comment, and thought it didn't quite fit :D (we're cool, right?)

Hands off our breasts,

[papasha-mueller.livejournal.com]

you damn male chauvenistic pigs !