Treating your skin (an organ) as a piece of paper is a mental illness. If I began to cut crosses with a scalpel on my skin people say I need a mental health professional. If I do the same but with someone else putting toxic ink they say wow cool tattoo.
Getting a tattoo isnt inherently a bad thing. But you get to a point where its no longer normal. Getting one on your back, chest or arms is considered normal in most societies. But once you start using your hands, face and neck it starts getting excessive. Theres even people you get tattoos on their tongues and eyebslls. Edit: since everyone is commenting on it. I didn't mean to include the hands. Not sure why that ended up in the text
It's all relative isn't it. In my youth a tattoo arm sleeve basically guaranteed you were a criminal, convicted or soon to be convicted, probably a drug addict or dealer, etc.. People would cross the street to avoid that person. Good luck finding a decent job.
Now you have high-ranking politicians with arms sleeves and more. "Normal" is entirely relative....which is kind of scary actually because it seems we keep sliding down that slippery slope, judging by current expectations of behavior from our leaders compared to decades ago.
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u/Same-Information-330 1d ago
Why do people say this is mental illness? It's simple stupidity.