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Changing Face

Dahlian Kirby says we don’t need cosmetic surgery.

If a person has something in their life they are uncomfortable with, and has the means to change it so that it suits them better, should anyone ever try to prevent them from doing so? Is it indeed anyone else’s business? If that thing is part of their physical self, isn’t it really up to them? I wish to consider the possibility that by noninterference we may be contributing towards damaging ourselves and possibly harming an already damaged person.

It is said that we all have some part of our bodies we are unhappy with, whether it be breasts that are too small or a nose that is too large. This is said often in fashion magazines, but nowhere else as far as I know. The magazines then help to change the parts we can change, or hide them, or draw attention to other parts of us, the parts which are apparently more attractive. What is attractive in one culture or era, may of course be repulsive in another.

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