The real ones are far too exquisite to be worth tampering with.
This... so much this... I just couldn't agree more - and with your other points - but
this is friggin' gospel.
Aye i'd never ask anybody male or female to have an unnecessary surgery, they all carry a risk that's not worth paying. That and I think as a society we're becoming too bloody vain, which is foolish considering that beauty is temporary. Then again i'm a fucking hypocrite and a sucker for a fair lass, but I think that's genetic.
Aye, genetic back to some bottleneck in the past when humanity consisted of just a few related upright walkers, who incidentally probably spent any off hours hunting bling, 'cos we
all suffer from that particular personality defect...we're a race of hypocrites, always ready to uphold some ideal while ignoring some fundamental aspect personally because it doesn't suit. It should come as no surprise we're liars & actors, the skills of mimicry are embedded in us, and we wear masks all the time, how many people
really know you?
So for my part I make no judgement of those who make cosmetic surgery choices for themselves, it's just their way of dealing with this human condition we are all trying to come to terms with without a manual - my strategy is similar to Laings, rhetorical questions obfuscate the matter and give the brain something else to think about - and girls have probably the worst time of it concerning tough decisions & social pressure... work at a girls computer to see the endless torrent of "judgement from high" adverts confusing their identity.
Everyone who manages to achieve some kind of self fulfilment, or internal contentment, has a beauty about them, and
that beauty is permanent and doesn't wrinkle even when it laughs. Of course it's no coincidence the traditional path to get there involves shedding yourself of todays concerns and fashions. Todays clearly prevalent extremes of vanity & self obsession are the result of almost 100 years of advertising manipulating our desires (which are by definition things we do not need) to make us perpetual consumers, always wanting, wanting, wanting.
Most spiritual philosophies take a very dim view of allowing yourself to desire, it's rightly considered to be a personally destructive force that impedes awareness of & therefore correct action in the present. Taoism for instance suggests neither living in the past or the future, but the present, spending all your energy to make the now as satisfactory as possible and not wasting anything on future dreams or past misfortunes. It should go without saying that when we are thinking straight we know we should leave bad events in the past and not drag them with us, out of control desire is just the other side of the same coin.
(all that said, of the 3 bouncy girls I know well enough to comment, one was messed up by the experience, another I really can't tell, but the third has had no problems or regrets or really changed at all. So like most everything else especially this topic.....
TL/DR
"One size does not fit all".
