I don’t see much of a difference. Besides the obvious physical one of course. You have paint on your face right now, whatever kind it might be. Maybe it’s a message, maybe you’re dumb, maybe you’ve made a big mistake at some time, maybe not. But should I care? Are you good people or a mean piece of human garbage? That is what counts (to me). You could be either, with or without paint. My prejudgment doesn’t cloud my actual judgment of you.
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boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day agoThe permanence IS the most important difference though. One requires you to knowingly make the decision you’ll have it on your face forever.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
groet@feddit.org 1 day ago
So many decisions are permanent. Philosophically speaking, every decicsson is. If you decide to get that burito later you will forever be the person that decided to get that burito in that decision.
Someone decides to go to college and spends 5 years there. That is forever. They can decide to go into a different profession of course or get a second degree in something else but those 5 years are gone. And that decision should be mutch mutch mutch more relevant to somebody hiring you that a cosmetic decision. And yet we say to children that they can change their courses and degrees if they are not right but we say a tatoo is a mark against you forever.
Its 100% prejudice from a time when tattoos were (in western society) mainly related to gang association. A point that is 0% relevant today.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes, from a philosophical standpoint, even the water I just drank was a permanent decision.
But face tattoos are a permanent change to your appearance that you KNOW you might be against for AND can’t cover up so making that decision implies that you don’t consider potential negative future effects of your actions, or don’t care.
real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You can absolutely cover up face tattoos. It’s even easier in colder climates. Also, and I know it’s a bit of a reach, but coming out publicly is a permanent change that you know you might be discriminated against for. Should everyone stay in the closet because it brings fewer negative future effects?
Let people do what makes them happy, after all, it doesn’t hurt anyone (except themselves for a bit while getting it).
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 day ago
There are positive aspects to coming out if you’re in the closet. What’s the positive aspect of face tattoos?
And I know about life in colder climates. When did you last have a job interview outdoors though?