I get that a lot of people are in support of legalization on this issue, because of arguments like "Owning your body means deciding what happens to it" but I don't think that applies to grievous bodily harm. We cannot set up a system which legalizes stabbing defenseless people and marring their bodies permanently. Consider the following:

Nazis used tattooing to mark prisoners in concentration camps during in the Holocaust. We cannot allow this to repeat, and the eugenicist "art" of tattooing must not be allowed to become common
Tattoos of Swastikas or other Nazi symbols are also often used by Neonazi gangs to indicate allegiance to Fascism
Many people who have gotten tattoos later say they regret them. Removing tattoos is a painful process involving LASERS.
Tattoos are more common among the poor or formerly incarcerated; this clearly shows that tattoo shop owners are preying on the poor.
Sometimes the mentally ill or disabled get tattoos. Can we really trust an industry that preys on the ~~mentally incompetent~~ I mean the disabled? I respect disabled people's autonomy, btw, just not on this decision.

So we can see that legalization of tattoos is a slippery slope to fascism and eugenics, and arguments about "bodily autonomy" do not apply.

#lol #satire #not parx