With the many new advances and technologies of the twenty first century it is very interesting to see these new debates arising from what and how we decided it is okay to treat a person. The line between normal and not is shrinking with many things from the past not being socially accepted to being accepted, and the quick fix cosmetic surgeries are becoming far more outrageous. The article Emily's scars poses a unique idea of expressing ones differences or disabilities as on one hand being content with this as my body and the way I am supposed to be, with this is what is wrong with my body, I am not happy with this aspect, how can I fix this. Is this normal? Being human we find flaws in ourselves, but are they necessarily bad, no, they are what make us individual.
Emily a little person being able to have her limbs lengthened to lead a more "normal" life is great, but the part that I was interested in is the fact that she was left with many painful looking scars, which doctors encouraged her to have removed with a skin graft, but she refused. Wanting to remember her past and not lose her Identity in her new body, but live in a comfortable lifestyle that may have been more difficult before. Learning her story in correlation to the new "technoluxe" surgeries that are the new rage is ironic. Although I would love to purchase a $700 plus pair of super slinky and bedazzled Manolo Blahnik's and have it look like it was made especially for my foot, I think it is outrageous that people are having foot surgery to do just this. Changing your foot for appearance reasons doesn't make sense to me, it sounds like it would only cause more pain and havoc down the road, calling for more surgeries.
Deciding what is ethically okay and not okay is a rather difficult and controversial task which no one will ever agree with the next person on. Everyone has their own personal opinion which is respectable, it just seems that some people rush into things too quickly especially with the cosmetic surgeries, not taking time to weigh the pros and cons or possible challenges that lie ahead with them. Fixing a little here and a little there is okay in the broad spectrum, but with some people I question what are they striving for, when getting surgery after surgery and such it seems that before they know it they aren't even going to be human anymore, the line needs to be drawn somewhere, but where? It seems as though people forget that we only have one body and sometime fixing it in one way causes a world of problems in a different, but most times too late, when we can no longer fix or past steps. Technology makes everything seem doable, but life is precious we can't just, in Daft Punk's words, "Buy it, use it, break it, fix it Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it Snap it, work it, quick erase it."
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I totally agree with your post. I always find myself asking the question when it it too much? Some things i hear i find ok and others i find absolutely ridiculous. I have come to the conclusion that there is a very fine line and that line changes with each individual. Hopefully eventually we as society can come to an agreement as to where that line is.
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