Hey lets ban alcohol thousands die directly & indirectly from the consequences of drinkmerlin wrote: Perhaps you've been lucky and haven't seen friends/colleagues (including the ones mentioned above) suffer from injuries/infections caused by piercing or tattooing. If you prefer not to refer to them as a "disfigurement", then I would respectfully ask what alternative description you would find acceptable. Thousands of folk every year suffer blood poisoning, septicaemia or worse from tattoos that 'go wrong', never mind piercings, and this is despite stringent hygiene regulations now in force. (One of our 'drinking chums' works in a tattoo parlour!) How many here have seen the after effects of having an infected tattoo 'removed'?
Hey lets ban cars because hey you can't trust any driver causing injury or death
Hey lets wrap everybody in bubblewrap....actually lets not because yeah **** happens!
I don't doubt some forms of body modification can cause injury however for the hundreds who have suffered injury there are thousands who don't. Just the same arguement with drink, drugs & guns.
