Seriously. I've just been reading The Daily Mail (possibly asking for it, I know) and the stance there can be summed up as: 'if your bodily choice causes serious illness or addiction, we'll back it to the hilt against the nanny state and interfering busybodies. But if it causes art - you dysfunctional Neanderthal, you - you can never live under my roof.'

Knowing the Daily Fail, I suspect the discrepancy is because "we do this, therefore it is acceptable; we don't do that, therefore it is an absolute disgrace and should be banned."

Yeah, and it's all coming from the generation that brought us music-based riots and skinheads. Classic

Meh, I personally could care less what other people to do their bodies, and in some rare cases I might even admire the artistry that goes into them, but I personally will NEVER have a tattoo, and for the most part think they look horrendous, and that only gets worse as you age and start to wrinkle. Still, I'd never say anything to anyone I don't know about their tattoos(Actually, I don't say anything to my friends either, lol). Thankfully my wife doesn't want one, because that would cause a MASSIVE fight, I'd never date a woman who has one, and having to look at one on my wife every day would probably cause me a heart attack ^^

Don't care about tattoos for the most part. But some are really stupid and meaningless, then some art just works of art.

I don't hate tatoos, I just don't think they make anyone look better for having one (or several). I also see tattoo choices that people make today that I wonder how they are going to feel about them in 10 or 20 years. These things are permanent unless you want to go through the pain of a laser removal.

Can't speak for anyone else with a tattoo, but I imagine it being really dull living my life based on how I think I'm going to feel in twenty years, so I don't bother myself with such pointless questions...

Tattoos don't look bad on older people. Think that's just something people say to scare kids out of getting them, to be honest, like how we were told smoking would give us serious brain damage and mastvrbating would make us go blind. Besides, they can be removed if not to one's liking in several decades' time. Unlike half the stuff 'oh it'll look awful when you're older' folk did when they were younger.

I notice a trend of judgmentalism continuing in some people who claim not to care. Can someone who has the courage to admit to judging those with tattoos kindly explain why? I genuinely see nothing in ink anyone has the right to complain at.

It's not about courage to admit why we hate/dislike/don't care (likewise for things we like). We feel what we feel about them because it's personal preference.

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I can't take pain, I am a wimp sadly to say. So I don't have any. My wife. She can take pain and loves her tattoos.

I swear I will be like Howard if I ever get try and get a tattoo.

Appreciated that for some it's just personal taste, and there's nothing wrong with that. But many, even among those who say it's just their 'preference,' exhibit blatantly judgmental attitudes. Those are the people I really want to hear an explanation from, but they vanish like cockroaches in the light when someone asks them an open question. Or, in the case of the Daily Mail, threaten 'red arrows,' because red arrows on the Daily Mail constitute vigilante action

Yeah, although tattoos probably aren't for me personally, I think a lot more of my life is filled with the regret of "why didn't I do that 20 years ago?" rather than the "I might slightly regret this in 20 years". Although some caution is good, allowing it to stifle you is a pretty unhealthy thing that can reduce a life to an existence.

I read that post very differently than you did. Rather than being an outside comment on seeing a tat on an older person, I read it as "What will YOUR 40-year-old mind think about the permanent object YOUR 20-year-old mind placed on YOUR body?".

Tattoes have become so popular now and days it looks like everyone has one. to the douch bags to the nerds they've become so popular there starting to all look the same I have seen countless people sporting the same patterns though I have seen some very unique ones.

I think my 40+ year old mind is much the same as my 20 year old mind, which was in turn much the same as my 12 year old mind. Over that time I seem to have accumulated some life experience but lost some wisdom. No doubt my 60 year old mind will be a further progression of the same, and my 80 year old mind, if I live that long, will have lots of experience and a sort of negative wisdom rating.