yeah I'm against earings.
Ideally I'm against it on women too, but I'm openminded about it.
also against piercings and tats.
I'm a purist in terms of superficial alteration of the body.

Whereas clothes does not alter your body plus have a operative function. Whether it has this cool design is just killing 2 birds with one stone.

to be fair, I understand how those plugs/earings/piercings help express people.
It is just that I find the justification too stupid.
That's why I ask HOW? it helps expression, because I deny accepting such ridiculous explanation.
To expand, it is ridiculous because the whole idea that a little piece of something attached to your body is supposed to cry the world your discomfort? twisted taste for aestethics? defiance? abnormality? uniqueness? your oh style?
HOW CHEAP IS THAT
really

and just the fact you go through a process of pain is a whole pack of bullshit sold to you making believe that it is all a whole lot more real.
Because pain makes you feel alive, like you're really doing something important. It alleviates.
Alleviates my balls, get a fix in your perception of reality.
there are cheaper and much more effective ways of expressions and they dont leave scars.

Where is the bonus you get by having a style that includes an earplug?
What puzzles me is that drive towards it, because I never got that desire at all, I got repulsion instead.
I'm thinking hard, what if I have one, what if this and that, and just see the pointlessness of it all.

It must be the defiance, it must be that desire to be polemic and call for attention and get those weary looks, like I'm just doing right now...
well whatever I'm sleepy now and am ranting off my head without a fine line

in my experiences ear guages look best on kinda gnarly guys with awful skin because it makes it look like their goal was to look that way.

most other people look better without them (or rather, looked better). i was going to mention JOB PROSPECTS but you've already got the eyebrow. i guess that's easier to cover though

Well I just made up a bunch of bullshit to get your mind thinking, "Hey maybe people do shit for other reasons (even if they are fucking crazy." If you find something one way, good for you. But it doesn't mean you have to go release your angst and hatred for it simply because it's something you don't like because EVERYONE HAS A MIND OF THEIR FUCKING OWN EACH WITH ITS OWN SEPARATE INTERESTS. Get used to it and don't think your way of doing something is right or superior. Congratulations, you have an opinion on a matter.

Seriously, I hold people here usually intelligent and creative, but you can't even begin to accept to fathom of something different. Coexist. For real.

Well, I disagree with some of Fatboy's reasonings, but I'll chime in again. About hair being a poor comparison because we are born with it: I agree to the extent that it is impractical to do nothing with it, but a lot of people (mostly women) will spend a large amount of time on their hair for purely aesthetic reasons. There is no practical advantage to spending that much time on your hair, unless you are counting some sort of social benefit which isn't necessarily absent when speaking of piercings either. It seems to me like you have some deeper grudge against body alteration than anything else, but the only really argument I can see from you is "Why do it?" Which is fair as there should be some sort of reasoning behind anyone's actions. Again, I did it at the start to conform mostly to my group of friends. They had piercings, so I got piercings, and we were bonded on some level by that. But, I've grown beyond that. I get piercings, and tattoos, because again, this is the character that I choose to show to the world. It is mostly an aesthetic thing, yes, but I do not understand what is wrong with that. The justification that it shouldn't be done, because you are not born with it doesn't really work, especially when you seem less averse to it for women. You would also need to be against things like makeup, braces (excluding omg my teeth are killing me; much of braces are done for this reason), women shaving their legs, hair dye, jewelry... I mean, the list really just goes on. And in 99% of cases these are for aesthetic reasons. And you say that it's "killing two birds with one stone" for clothes, but really the most practical thing would be to just buy 20 pairs of pants and 20 shirts and walk out with that. Which, I highly doubt you do. I mean, you might, but given your argument I doubt it. It sounds to me like you have some sort of negative emotional response to the idea of piercings that isn't founded on any sort of rational argument. You throw away the idea that our bodies can be a sort of art and say you are against the idea that we pierce or modify them in any way. This is tantamount, at least I feel, to "I don't think anyone should pierce..." And the important word there is SHOULD, because now you are getting away from aesthetics ("I don't think that looks good") and into ethics ("I am against the idea that anyone should do that"), yet you do so blindly and without providing any sort of ethical foundation to your argument. The only ethical implications I can pull out of what you said are terribly inconsistent.

Sorry for the WALLOFTEXT.

Questions to answer if you feel like it:

[1] What is your ethical basis for people not piercing themselves?
[2] Why are you more open to it on women than men?
[3] Should we only focus on the practical, and never on aesthetics?

Oh, also I don't think their hurt that much.

WOW
so much discussion for a simple decision!
just get a small one (the only decent looking ones) and let it grow in if you dont like it.

this isn't convincing YOU to get one, its the dude who made the topic's

no shit

guys who wear sunglasses on the top of their head have no business getting ear gauges

Guys I want to get my cock pierced and wear a bunch of bells and shit on it so I jingle when I walk Y/N?