Re: Plastic Surgery: Please Help Me Understand
cyberpainter wrote:
... Would you deny someone reducing a huge shnozz if it bothered them? How about dying their hair? ...
hito wrote:
These aren't great rhetorical questions as I think I answered something against your point on many of them...
cyberpainter wrote:
Well I disagree with you. I re-read what you've written, and you're projecting your own aesthetic judgments on others. I don't disagree that the extremes, and hollywood culture is a bad influence on society as a whole. But my points don't relate to that very much.
I don't disagree that we disagree. I am not projecting anything (at least in the Freudian sense), I am simply stating my point of view as are you.
In this case, I said that your rhetorical questions are not good because the answer is not obvious or clear or redundant. For example, I said that a big nose is better than one that has been "enhanced" by a surgeon. Therefore, you would be better to state that "a person should be able to get a nose job" rather than rhetorically asking if someone should do so as I have already said "no". Ditto hair. Of course you can use rhetorical questions whenever you like but they are more effective if you know your opponent will be stumped. If I said "why would a woman get breast implants?", you and others would say "to feel better" and thus my exasperated question is weakened.
We do agree about Hollywood but disagree about the everyday plastic surgery and we have both discussed each type.
