I see, still is an individual choice I believe. If I see those scars and like to have the exact same for any reason, I donāt see why not, they arenāt copyrighted or anything, yeah, they where hard to get for them because they followed a culture or whatever, good for them. But canāt ask others not to do it. It can be made illegal if the culture and government decides so. Just like in Japan, you canāt enter a pool with an exposed tattoo, etc. ācultureā and āregulationsā. Perhaps those ācrocodile childā people want to punish whomever has the exact same pattern on their own territory. But seems like a silly thing to do if you ask me.
I love the example of the momās tattoo. But canāt really do much about that, in fact, I donāt mind at all.
I studied a little of psychology many years ago (absolutely no expert at all). But the teacher told us this funny story.
One man returns home to his wife being super mad at him.
He asks her, whatās up?
She said, THE MAID IS PREGNANT!
He replied, thatās HER problem.
She continued, BUT YOU ARE THE FATHER!
He replied, thatās MY problem.
And finally she yelled again, BUT YOU ARE MY HUSBAND!
To what he replied, Thats YOUR problem.
The idea of this is that consciously we are singular individuals, yes, indeed, in society the actions of one person commonly affect more than one other personās perspective, expectations of that first person, but what they think, feel or believe, is independent of what the first person is doing. Classic example of, āI am responsible for what I said, not what you think I saidā.
So if someone thinks my (imaginary) deceased momās is hot and wants a tattoo of her. Is really up to me inside my head to deal with my own perspective of the situation. I can get angry, sad, happy, exited, depressed, scared. But is up to me how I want to perceive the actions of that person. āGlass half-empty, half-fullā.
So someone wants to copy your āmagicalā tattoo, I say, donāt worry for them. The āmagicā only works on your skin, you know what I mean?
Perhaps you donāt agree, and is cool, is how you want to see it. All Iām saying is, there could be other ways to approach the same events that donāt come out in a negative way. Could be a time to educate them, perhaps they even decide to actually do all the ātrainingā, āchallengesā or ātestsā that the original person went trough to get that same tattoo and your passion for that ink on the skin would mean something for someone else as well. IDK, you probably can tell that I donāt have a tattoo, so perhaps I am not anyone to talk about them. ^^
(I love this derail thread lol)
