My Question of the Day for 08 June 2010 – UPDATED
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My Question of the Day: Beauty seems to be a commodity in our world today. Aside from medically-necessary procedures, how much cosmetic surgery is too much?
My 2 Cents: Unless cosmetic surgery is medically necessary, any cosmetic surgery is too much. I define medically necessary as needed to ease or prevent physical/mental/emotional pain and/or to create/restore proper use of/to.
When I was stationed in Korea, there was a Korean lady who worked with me who had surgery for breast implants. Prior to the surgery, her chest was as flat as a man’s, literally. She got implants proportionate to her small frame, just so she could feel like a whole woman; feel feminine and complete.
She was in her late forties, and the issue had caused her mental and emotional pain for many, many years. Imagine being discouraged from breastfeeding your babies because you couldn’t produce enough nutritious milk to keep them healthy. She carried that guilt even when I met her, and her three children were grown and healthy and successful people by that time.
I’m not totally against cosmetic surgery. I just don’t think it should replace proper eating habits, physical exercise or the natural progression of life.
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Any procedure above and beyond correcting damage to your body is too much. No amount of work is going to make you happy with yourself.
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LikeDislikeI think most of it is too much, but that’s just me. If something looks seriously off and is constantly bothering you, fine. But people just change features to be changing them; nitpicking “flaws” no one else sees. When you don’t recognize yourself in the mirror, you’ve gone too far…
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LikeDislikeI think anything past fixing teeth or a broken nose is too much cosmetic surgery.
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LikeDislikeI guess it’s too much when the person staring back at you in the mirror says it’s too much. By then though it may be too late.
If you think the only way it’s easy for a person to love themselves is if they are reasonably attractive then perhaps marketing has worked too well.
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LikeDislikeMost of it is too much IMO. Breast enlargement I can understand. Botox? Just let yourself age the way you weren’t meant to age. I’m sure that most people getting cosmetic surgery will come to regret it.
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LikeDislikeI’m torn on this. I really appreciate the uniqueness of people’s faces and can spot a nose job from a mile away, which I think takes away some of the beauty. But it’s easy to say “Love yourself the way you are” when you are relatively attractive. What if you aren’t?
What I don’t understand is how people become addicted and have multiple procedures. Fix the 1 or 2 things you really want, then let it go…
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LikeDislikeANY cosmetic surgery is too much. Love yourself the way you are!!!
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