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Plastic surgery is more common than you think (people don't tell you) and has better results than you think (the only surgery you notice is bad surgery; all the great surgery is invisible). It's also a great mental health boost, if I supported public funding I might for that

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If everybody can get surgery to become beautiful, then won’t the same mental health issues arise once more?

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I don't think self-perception of beauty exists 100% in contrast to others. It might to some degree, but I'd be shocked if very easily available widespread plastic surgery had no positive impact.

4:38 AM · Mar 15, 2022

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I agree, probably shortens the tails on the distribution I just wonder whether it might create new issues like plastic surgery addiction by enabling traumas rather than healing them

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Probably varies per person, and there's probably some steps to be able to mitigate it (like having waiting period before getting surgery).

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I would guess a large % based on how sexuality seems to be surprisingly social learning based & how recent attractiveness median growth doesn't seem to have improved wellbeing. Meanwhile, plastic surgery is really expensive (in money and in pain)

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Like Donda never even happened.