I didn't say there's never any reason for braces. Of course there is. But the vast majority of people who get braces absolutely do not need them. It's this idea that everything must be perfectly straight or else it's "wrong..." It causes a lot of people a lot of harm.
It's an amazing tendency on the internet that doesn't seem to occur much in face-to-face conversations... People seem to interpret every statement as absolute unless you go out of your way to point out that it's not. People will interpret "we give braces to people who don't need them" as "no one needs braces and it's always wrong to use them." For future reference, I always try to avoid thinking in absolutes, because there just aren't very many of them in the universe.
Of course these things have their place. I was only trying to point out how we tend to try to force all bodies to develop in a certain way, when in most cases it's either unnecessary or even harmful. I'm not saying we should throw away all of modern medicine and technology and all go live in the forest (although it is a nice idea in theory, I like my internet and antibiotics). I'm just pointing generally at our habit of assuming all these modern breakthroughs are helpful when in fact many of them are doing more harm than good. (I was given braces for a year which actually made my problems worse, since they were rooted in my jaw structure and not my teeth. The orthodontist just sort of shrugged it off with an "oh, well, can't fix everyone." Same deal with my mother and one of my sisters. Only one of my sisters had problems which actually needed addressing and obtained a real benefit from her braces. That's not a very promising success rate.)
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