Board Thread:Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard/@comment-5896827-20161014021044/@comment-5896827-20170706222736

Oceanhalo12 wrote: Blazenite104 wrote: LucasVerBeek wrote: Mutilate your body...what the hell do you mean by that? surgery basically. get cut up and change things around when physically there's nothing wrong. I'm trying to leave personal opinions on peoples mental health out of it because everyone has their own and it just leads to fights. So tattoos, plastic surgery, and circumcision,piercings must be wrong as well. Otherwise your point is invalid.(And btw feeling one gender but being another constitutes as 'something wrong' in my book).

But anyways, Alex has already mentioned she cannot actually permanently change her sex simply by shapeshifting. Honestly, I don't care much for any of the examples you said. I mean, people can do it I just don't know why they would (except piercings).

Circumcision seems like a cruel thing that is reserved for animals; plastic surgery is a permanent and often botched alteration of the body that people who have low self-esteem will think it will make them more confident (it doesn't, if you aren't happy with yourself, you need to gain confidence and a body alteration won't cure do that); tattoos are extremely painful and permanent, so if you don't like what you have next year, too bad, it's there to stay.

Piercings are the most reasonable out of them. They can heal easily so it's not a permanent, life/body altering decision. Because, chances are, you will change your mind. I know I wouldn't make the same decisions about stuff that I did back in school. People grow and change.

I just don't understand why someone would permanently change their body through such extreme measures. Maybe I am too old fashioned but I think you should be careful what you do to your body as you might regret it later. I consider those examples mutilation because you are damaging your body with scalpels, knives, needles and injecting chemicals into your body that don't belong there. It's not like your body will stop being healthy if you don't get a plastic surgery/tattoo/etc, in fact, you are damaging a perfectly healthy body for whatever reason you feel the need to get the aforementioned.