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[–] ardvarcus 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Tattoos and piercings show how susceptible people are to group pressure, peer pressure, suggestion, propaganda, fads. Sometimes I think the average human being doesn't really have any self-identity at all. They are just what the television and the schools and their peers have shaped them to be. A mother asks little Johnny, "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump off, too?" If little Johnny was honest, he would have to say "Yes." Most people would drink the cool aid under the right set of circumstances. They would become the prison guards in Auschwitz. They would fink on their parents to the authorities. Because they have no real minds of their own.