Speaking ethically, everyone does have a right do to whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else or (really) only harms themselves, but having a right to do something doesn't make what it says about you any different than what it otherwise would be.
A guy who unnecessarily punches someone in the face for going onto his land without his permission in Texas has every right to do it legally, but it doesn't make him any less of a tough-guy douche cowpat.
Cutting up your nether regions, unless you're a hermaphrodite or something similar, I think is a pretty grotesque statement, whatever your motivations to do it are, and it would have to come from a pretty dark place within the person.
I'm bringing this up only because I find it so revolting.. otherwise I'd find no reason to spout off all of this opinion in regard to it. But the world is a pretty twisted place today, and reason and logic and everything else is pretty much null at this point.. there doesn't seem to be any "sense" left in the world.
Edit: In any case, I've gotten that out of me, now I remember why I stopped playing MMOGs (there's some twisted shit going on in some of those games - dudes RPing women and worming their way into other dudes e-lives - those games attract some scary people)
Occasionally when surfing the net I suppose that you just need a "freak" exorcism, maybe that's why so many forums these days have people flaming each other, there's no way to shut out the stuff you just don't want to see, hear, read about, or even have in your mind in any way.
[ March 08, 2008: Message edited by: Old School Gamer ]