How do you feel about tattooed people?

She may have been happy about it at the time, but I doubt she is now.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/tattoo-statistics/
Percentage of people with tattoos who claim they are addicted to ink 32 %
Percentage of people who have some regret after getting their tattoo 17 %
Percentage of people with a tattoo who are getting or have had one removed 11 %

Total percentage of people with tattoos who say their tattoo makes them feel rebellious 29 %
Percentage of people with a tattoo that say it makes them feel more sexy 31 %
Percentage of people with tattoos who say their tattoo makes them feel more intelligent 5 %

There are smarter ways to feel rebellious and/or sexy with less life-impacting consequences.

 

So less than one in five regret their tattoos, and only about one in ten have one removed, then.

 

That's what the numbers say.

Since it's a relatively new fad, I'm content to wait 10-20 years and lets run that survey again.

 

I'm not disgusted...not yet..but I may be when that skin starts loosing it's elasticity and those round tats start looking like images of old dry pears

 

Yup.

 

yeah she would be so totally hot if it weren't for that tattoo...

 

lack of judgement is a very common characteristic among young people...my daughter had names of family members tattooed but not her boyfriends, she knew boyfriends are temporary but family is for life...and even then the names were applied in chinese script so no one knows what it says...

 

Nothing lasts forever. Not even tattoos, so what is the point of having them? A t-shirt and bumper sticker is cheaper.

 

Whats the point of a hot car vs a commuter car or a bicycle? Or home bigger than you need, a $1000 handbag...its all wasteful spending, but everyone has something they like spend money on that other people won't. ...

 

I can sell a hot car, commuter car, bike, house, handbag, etc or just give it to Good Will.

Yes, you are free to spend a $1000 a month on hats if you like. I may snicker but I'd never support anyone stopping you from doing it. Heck, I may even invest in the hat industry and make a few bucks!

 

And I met someone who spends a 2k per month on lottery tickets, I think thats nuts but its not my money or my life, they do as they like...tattoos are no different, its not my skin or my money they can do as they like...

 

Agreed, but I have no sympathy for them when they can't afford to eat or their house burns down and it turns out they don't have insurance.

 

Personally I don't like them. The color of the ink with the tone of the
flesh doesn't jive. I see tattoos as ugly. I'd date a girl that has one
if she's worth it but I still would care for the tat.

I find it hard to believe that someone would intentionally and permanently
disfigure their body.

Maybe people who get tats live for the moment. I don't know. It appears
that they don't look to the future.

 

Anyone can live for the moment without scarring, disfiguring or otherwise marking themselves. I see it as more of a narcissistic or attention-getting act than one of "living for the moment".

 

I have always been against tattoos but it is very popular right now and I don't feel one way or the other about other people's tattoos, I just will not have any. My daughter was in the Marines so it was almost mandatory for her.

 

Well, if living in a "free society" means having to put up with a bunch of dirty, drug-addicted, obscene tattooed trash, I'm not sure if I even want to live in one.

 

Okay, maybe I was a little irrational with that last comment, but the point I was trying to make was that a "free society" can't function properly if no moral boundaries are put in place; otherwise, you'd have anarchy. And I just can't see how tattoos can represent a functional society, especially when those who have them seem to be of immoral character.

 

only a little irrational ? ...more like completely out of touch with reality...

 

That section I have bolded is the flaw there - it is an assumption that tattoos soemhow equal 'immoral character', and that assumption is entirely false. Stop basing the consideration of tattoos on that assumption, and suddenly tattoos themselves won't seem so bad - they are only permanent drawings on the skin, nothing more.

 

It's not the "art", it's the meaning behind the "permanent drawings on the skin". Unless you are equating those skin drawings with doodling, then each and every one of them has a specific meaning and intent. That says something about the person. Others are free to agree or disagree with that person's message.

 

True...but it's a bit much to disagree with the very concept of someone having a message and portraying it through that one particular format if they choose to (if indeed that is what they are doing, rather than just pure aestheticism and a simple message of 'I think this looks good on me'!)!

 

Disagreed. It'd be a bit much to want to ban the choice, but to disagree with a person's choice is completely fair game.

 

Absolutely - no problem with disagreeing with their choice. It's treating someone differently, and worse than anybody else, just because of their choice that is a problem.

 

Sorry, but that's fair game also. If a person chooses to over-indulge in alcohol, don't others have a right to choose how they react including how they treat that person? If they choose to wear Carmen Miranda hats, glitter make-up and platform shoes, don't others have the right to their reactions on how they treat that person? Nothing violating the first person's rights, of course, just how one person judges or reacts to another. If so, then why should those who choose to permanently mark their bodies be immune from public reactions? Besides, isn't one of the purposes of ink to provoke a reaction?

 

The neck ones are really attention grabbers. I feel like saying,,,OK, now I know you like snakes [or whatever]. One guy I knew [a client] had a Luger on his neck.

I thought,,,What the hell is that supposed to mean? Either he like Luger's or he'll shoot me if I dont....


This is interesting, either it's fine art or a rd Map he wanted to remember,,,not sure...