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[–] kishind ago 

Values can be objective as they have objective consequences. If a value consistently harms evolutionary fitness, it's objectively bad. If a value consistently promotes evolutionary fitness, it's objectively good.

Marking the body has no health benefits and some risks (like infection). It only has niche social benefits - some girls are horny for the inked, usually because it was associated with primal manliness in her mind (by seeing tattooed guys who also displayed primal manliness).

Tattooing is associated with high risk behaviors in general, and cluster B personality disorders. If anything, the prevalence of tattooing is a way to measure the degradation of a society into widespread narcissism. It's not a cause of the degradation.