Laptops with Stickers

I got rid of all mine after getting disillusioned with every one of the causes they represented.

This is the main reason I've never gotten a tattoo - how I feel about whatever it is will almost certainly change.

But you can also use them as a reminder of how you felt/who you were when you got them.

Even someone who get a very trendy tattoo should keep it: "look how I used to follow every trend and how I evolved because I would never do something like that now".

Biologically and philosophically, tattoos are scars.

Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision.

> Getting scars on purpose is a quite questionable decision.

Interesting. Why?

Isn't it a common and longstanding cultural practice, even among indigenous peoples? Intuitively, I'd say body modification is based on the desire to shape one's own body, something we usually embrace in fitness culture and medicine, for example.

I don't have any tattoos or scars, but I can't think of anything that would make them questionable.

Perhaps some of the objection arises from a confusion between body modification and self-harm?

Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't mean it's good. We also shouldn't confuse self-mutilation with healthy activities like exercising simply because both "shape one's own body".