COMMENT 5

Posted at http://songbird-beingbad.blogspot.com/2008/04/body-modification-more-than-just.html on Friday 25th April, 2008.

I agree that the only point at which body modification concerns me is when it is inflicted upon non-consenting individuals. The most diturbing thing about non-consenting individuals having their body modified by others is that, due to the uniquely physical nature of the modification, the process often has to be carried out on the individual when they are not even aware of it's happening (such as when they are still a child and cannot critically analyse the situations they are presented with). This, therefore, takes the act of force-unconsented modification of another individuals body one step further. It has to be considered, in my mind, an invasion of another's being without their consent and seems to fall into the same ethical territory as rape.