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Even if our bodies were blank, they are not canvasses. Shape alone is its own art form. I've never seen a statue with tattoos, and those are universally less interesting than actual human bodies. Do you consider all statues, sculptures, etc. unremarkable and boring? I find even simple statues and sculptures more aesthetically interesting than almost any 2d art.
Statues and sculptures are remarkable because they're creations of human talent. Everyone has a body. I can walk outside and see hundreds of them just wandering around my town. They are all broadly the same. Some are nicer than others, like some rocks have a more pleasing shape than others. But a statue is on a level above, and requires that rock to be shaped by human intervention. Meaningful art requires human intervention. Trying to put a stock human body on the level of someone who has turned their body into art is like bringing a nice rock you found as an entry to a sculpture contest.
Meaningful beauty does not require human intervention. I agree that the skill required to create statues is very cool, and adds to the beauty, but also the amazingly complex systems which create other things (such as human bodies) are cool too, probably even cooler imo.
That's interesting. I generally find statues much less interesting and beautiful than actual people.
I'd compare a stock human body to a natural stream. Some streams are more beautiful than others, but nearly all are quite beautiful and nearly all fulfill their purpose in a very aesthetically pleasing way.
Some bodies being much more beautiful than others says nothing about how non-artistic bodies compare to non-bodies.
Something which everyone possesses by default has almost no value. If everyone's super, nobody is.
I find most people to be profoundly boring and lacking in substance, soul and imagination.
Being scared to alter your body in any way immediately marks you to me as being boring, lacking in substance, soul and imagination. You are store-brand Cornflakes in a plain white box.
OK, but we're talking about beauty, not value. Snowflakes are virtually worthless, and incredibly common, but are very pretty.
Again, this has little to do with physical beauty.
Using this word is so disingenuous that I consider it lying. Who said anything about fear? Disliking something is not being afraid of it.
To be beautiful is to have value. Perhaps not monetary value, but conceptual value. Snow also probably stops being as remarkably pretty if you live in, say, Canada, in the same way as stock human bodies become boring when you're surrounded by them constantly, too. We see so many generically attractive people in media that I for one have become completely inured to it. Just that fails to interest me anymore.
It is everything to do with physical beauty. Beauty is, above all, rare. Cover your bedroom walls in Mona Lisas and you'll soon stop finding it magical. Unique things are far more beautiful than generic things.
Just personal experience that this is what it usually comes down to. Fear of the process, or fear of "growing out" of whatever you decide to get. Nebulous fears about how it'll look when you're old (nobody actually gives a flying shite how you look when you're old). Things like that are what I hear most commonly against them.
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