Ontario Working to Ban Eye Tattoos after Woman Injured

Malcador said:
few good things about this government, but this one is good
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Why, for the love of all that is Holy, should some simp NEED the government to tell him (or her) that having some random bloke stick a needle in their eyeball and inject some unknown fluid is a bad idea? At some point, you've got to let adults be stupid and suffer the consequences.

Making it illegal will just, to use the abortionist argument, drive it into the back alleys. There'll be a frisson of "sticking it to the man" and MORE idiots will do this.
 
c3k said:
Why, for the love of all that is Holy, should some simp NEED the government to tell him (or her) that having some random bloke stick a needle in their eyeball and inject some unknown fluid is a bad idea? At some point, you've got to let adults be stupid and suffer the consequences.

Making it illegal will just, to use the abortionist argument, drive it into the back alleys. There'll be a frisson of "sticking it to the man" and MORE idiots will do this.
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The problem is that it IS being done in the 'back alleys'. Cosmetic eye surgery will still be permitted in hospitals and licensed clinics.

All this means is that the 17 year old at 'Bob's Tattoo Emporium' won't be allowed to jab people in the eyes with needles anymore.
 
NeoNemesis said:
The problem is that it IS being done in the 'back alleys'. Cosmetic eye surgery will still be permitted in hospitals and licensed clinics.

All this means is that the 17 year old at 'Bob's Tattoo Emporium' won't be allowed to jab people in the eyes with needles anymore.
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Anyone who lets that 17 year old stick a needle in their eyeball cannot be "saved" by goverment intervention.
 
c3k said:
Anyone who lets that 17 year old stick a needle in their eyeball cannot be "saved" by goverment intervention.
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Absolutely, but with any luck they'll find a way to off themselves that's less burdensome on the healthcare system.
 
I'd just ban stupid people, then you don't have to ban anything else, no stupid people, noone doing stupid shit.
 
c3k said:
Anyone who lets that 17 year old stick a needle in their eyeball cannot be "saved" by goverment intervention.
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Actually they can, it's called going to jail. That helps the next 14 or 15 year old who shows up looking to be blinded.
 
It's not new, and we got a few people's with pigmented eyed whites walking around Portland that are just fine.

Sounds like some untrained artist wanted to do something new and screwed up by time.

With any body modification there is risk, call it darwinism, stupidy, self-image issues or they just want to be rebellious. It irons out that if a law doesn't prevent it, it will occur and if a law does exist, it might still occur.

Lots of body mods no one balks at...just saying.
 
NeoNemesis said:
The problem is that it IS being done in the 'back alleys'. Cosmetic eye surgery will still be permitted in hospitals and licensed clinics.

All this means is that the 17 year old at 'Bob's Tattoo Emporium' won't be allowed to jab people in the eyes with needles anymore.
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Then you got to get sent to a slam, where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor, and you pay him 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.
 
Stupid is as stupid does. But this is just next level stupid.

Next up, brain tattoos. Cut open the skull and tat that pink shit up.
 
You know, if you're stupid enough to think having needles inject ink into your eye is a good idea, you deserve the infection. stop making laws that protect the stupid, they'll just breed and make more.
 
You need the government to ban someone from getting a tattoo on their eye? I would think common sense might stop that. To quote a former Minnesota politician, who at the time was imo right on the money... "thats natures way of weeding out the stupid" ... "you cannot legislate against stupidity". This was in reference to people driving their vehicles on the ice and drowning.
 
i say remove the warning labels from everything and let nature sort it self out.
 
c3k said:
Making it illegal will just, to use the abortionist argument, drive it into the back alleys. There'll be a frisson of "sticking it to the man" and MORE idiots will do this.
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I had the same thought. Like these lunatics would be deterred by a law.
 
c3k said:
Why, for the love of all that is Holy, should some simp NEED the government to tell him (or her) that having some random bloke stick a needle in their eyeball and inject some unknown fluid is a bad idea? At some point, you've got to let adults be stupid and suffer the consequences.

Making it illegal will just, to use the abortionist argument, drive it into the back alleys. There'll be a frisson of "sticking it to the man" and MORE idiots will do this.
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Did you read the article? "An artist without proper training tattooed the white of Catt Gallinger's right eye purple in an Arnprior, Ont., studio on the night of Sept. 5."

1. Abortion is already well understood, known to be safe and performed by qualified physicians
2. This is not well understood, is not safe and is not performed by a physician (qualified or not)

Therefore, this is not at all like banning abortion and performing a medical procedure in a tattoo parlor is pretty back alley.
 
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