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Adults treat children badly because of eye color, thus proving you are a bad person if you want a specific eye color.
Edit: You know what? Why not. Lets extend the logic. You are a bad person if you want to be anything different from what you are. Sorry to have to be the one to tell you Truean.
Gender is performative. It is not solely cosmetic in nature, so that one's genitals will strictly inform how you behave, period. That is why being trans falls under a different category, much like a person hoping to be humble rather than arrogant, or perhaps patient and calm rather than an active go-getter. As such, Criptfeind's logic is a false extension of the issue at hand.
Blue eyes are not an activity. There is hopefully not a "blue-eyed personality" or "blue-eyed designated social role."
A hierarchy of physical appearances does exist in the United States, and quite a bit of it is based on coloration. Please note that, for example, hair that is a little bit brown and a little bit blond is called "dirty blond."
The author of the article did not frame his argument and desire to turn brown eyes blue in terms of cosmetic fun and games. It is framed as a method employed to increase soulfulness, that is, humanity.
The idea that you could become more human by changing your brown eyes to blue is deeply problematic and indeed reminiscent of certain Nazi projects. It is one thing to wish your child had blue eyes, but see them for who they are and treat them as wonderful just the way they are. It is another thing to treat those with brown eyes as less human, especially because brown eyes are more often correlated with other dark pigmentation, much like all those silly people who have told me "you would be pretty if you just straightened your hair."
History and this argument keep repeating, because we never learned. Facts, the what, disputed or not, are only half the lesson. Purpose, the why, is the most important part. Memorize names, dates, trivia if you will. Please also recall the reasons and rhymes to restrain repeats....
Shaping human bodies or minds are techniques. Their use aspires to the greatest within us; their misuse to the grotesque.... Such acts are only misuse when done in wrongful reason. When determining the rightness of reason look to purpose:
motivation,
consequence,
cost,
necessity.
Motivation is the subjective result desired. To assert one's superiority, another's inferiority, and completely unfounded characteristics on account of a mere cosmetic trait, is wrongful. Changing anything in and of itself, is not wrongful. Doing so for personal pleasure is not. Doing so for others' pain is.
Consequence is the objective result achieved, often differing from those desired. pride, in appearance or anything, is wrongful when gained by imposition.
Cost is at once available alternatives, operational, monetary. Necessity is consequence of paying or not paying the costs above. and the prioritization of alternatives. The questions are purity of motive, actualities, and if the ends justify the means.
Changing eye color cosmetically is only wrong if purposefully done to insist on one's superiority by means that don't justify the ends.
Saying blue eyes make you more of a person and everyone without them less is the problem. (emphasis added) The means, contacts or surgery, are not inherently a problem unless we get into available alternatives and are depriving someone of a doctor's services for a non cosmetic procedure, or contact lenses for visual correction rather than appearance (which addresses at once cost and necessity). I think we can agree eye color is pretty much cosmetic.
Changing or selecting gender would only be wrong if done to insist on
one's superiority. The same arguments apply. Wretched though I am, I would not insist upon my SRS if it meant another would die for want of the doctor's knife. That said, I'd say it'd have priority over any cosmetic procedure. Ending my misery is not more important than someone's life; it is more important than their vanity. This procedure would not be cosmetic, despite not giving me everything a woman has or can do. Those are regrettable limitations of the treatment, not skin deep cosmetic features. The difference being that if I could be entirely female in every way, I absolutely would, the person getting cosmetic plastic surgery, is getting exactly what they want, permanent cosmetics.... On the contrary, if I am able to get this surgery, people will insist I'm inferior and impose untrue, negative characteristics on me in spite of everything I've done. A lot of people never look at me the same once they find out....
What we never learned:How sad, it's easier to cut flesh than for people to cut out being superficial.... History and this argument keep repeating, because we never learn.... There are so many women who are more beautiful than I. The most beautiful are those who, though more beautiful than I, are beautiful enough not to look down on me for it.
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