Botox and Plastic Surgery morally wrong?

[Kofi]

A few weeks ago I kept hearing botox here, botox there so I decided to google the meaning of botox and I came to realize botox is a 'turn-back-the-clock-quick' beauty technique. I wanted to see how it looks like so I googled "how does botox looks like" and lo and behold I found a bottle with a syringe beside it and on the label was the word TOXIN written in bold. I might be wrong but from the little english I know, Toxin means poisonous. I came to realize people inject this poisonous chemical called botox into their bodies so as to make them look younger. Botox makes the skin somehow firmer and helps reduce wrinkles helping people look younger than their natural age. I had never heard about botox in Africa maybe because not so many people have the money to buy botox in Africa.

Yesterday I read an article on cnn and in that article, one American mom confessed to giving her 8 year old girl some botox to enable her remain a kid forever. According to the mom, she wants her baby to have a 'kiddie face' for long so she can become a superstar and that, she(the mom) will do anything possible to make her baby remain young so she can become a superstar. At this point I said to myself maybe all the superstars in America have kiddie faces and all thanks to botox for making them look younger.

According to the little 8 year old girl, the botox was very painful at first and she used to cry anytime her mother gave her botox but now she is used to it and she loves it because some of her friends tell her they(her friends) are very jealous and that they will keep pressuring their moms until they get botox too. The little girl also said, "I can't wait to get my boobs done so I can become a superstar". At this point I said to myself, maybe boobs is another requirement. From the way this mom confessed without feeling any guilt, it appears to me there are so many moms in America and other developed countries giving their kids botox so they(their kids) can become superstars.

Botox is toxic and those adults who use it know it is very toxic but in some cases, they have no other choice than to go for botox because not so many people can afford plastic surgery and in a society where only 'kiddie face' people can become superstars, adults have no choice than to use botox. Adults have wrinkles so I understand why they use botox but I don't quite remember the last time I saw an 8 year old girl with wrinkles all over her face.

So my question is, Is the use of botox morally wrong? What about plastic surgery and breast implant?

[Doug]

So my question is, Is the use of botox morally wrong? What about plastic surgery and breast implant?

Most all medications are toxic. They have side effects. A common blood thinner is what they use as a rat poison. A common heart medication is what the terrorist uses to blow up things, 'nitro'. So if botox is morally wrong then we have a very very amoral civilization on this earth.


What about plastic surgery and breast implant? I think it would be wise to first address this question to the area and peoples you live with. Take a look at what is done to the women of your race. Look at the lip surgery and implants done to the lips of some women. Look at what is done to the faces and skin of some of your people. Is that implants or do you prefer traditions? Maybe it's tradition what is done to a woman's sexual area or is it plastic surgery when you change the look and function of something God created? Is depriving a woman all her life of a God given function moral?

In my opinion when people spit in the face of God and change the way God created women they now become a god unto themselves. When this happens God gives them up to their own devices. And there in lies the reason for the woes of many peoples in this perverted world.

Bortox? Just a minor symptom of a much greater evil, man not accepting nature as it is or in other words not accepting the will of God.

Homosexuality, perverts, adulters, cheaters, corrupters, and now trying to determine if bortox is moral?

And so your question is: Is the use of botox morally wrong?

And I will answer that everyone on this earth has different morals therefore it remains a personal decision. However, if you look at it through the eyes of God it becomes a question of good or evil. The judgement of all mankind will be on terms of good or evil, not moral, not sin or church doctrine. Just good or evil and what each one has done with it in their lifetime.

[Kofi]

Not so many albinos can survive in the jungles of Africa where camouflage is very important for survival. Without camouflage, it is almost impossible to survive in the deep jungles full of wild animals. One way an albino can survive in the jungles of Africa is to tattoo his entire body to give him some camouflage. It is very wrong to tattoo your entire body but In this case I don't think God will punish this Albino for tattooing his entire body because he did that in order to survive in the jungle.

I don't think there is anything wrong in taking tylenol or any other medication to help you get better/survive. However, there is something very wrong in taking steroids to enable you build huge muscles so as to make you look sexier and more attractive towards girls. Without sin, we wouldn't need any medication to survive in this world. However, this world is full of sin and God knows this world is full of sin and we need medication such as painkillers to help us survive the stress.

I posted a thread here about lip plates in Africa sometime ago and I asked what people think about it and I got several replies. Some consider it a barbaric tradition, some consider it not barbaric at all, and some others are not sure. Lip plates, female genital mutilation, human sacrifice, etc. used to be very popular in those days but thank God people are beginning to see the light. Female genital mutilation is illegal in all African countries. Human sacrifice was banned a very long time ago all thanks to Christianity. In today's Africa, those caught performing or engaging in any form of human sacrifice are condemned sometimes to death by hanging. Lip plates used to be very popular in East Africa in those days but thank God these days people are beginning to see the light, except for one isolated(still untouched by modern life)tribe near Ethiopia, I've not heard of any other community in Africa that wears lip plates.

I also said in my thread that lip plate is a sign of beauty in those communities but some people considered it very funny because the lip plates make those people look rather very ugly. But nobody asked when and how it started and why it is a sign of beauty in those communities. Lip plating started during the time of slavery. The slave traders always wanted strong and healthy looking individuals they could sell abroad and make more profit but since nobody in America or any other developed country would pay money for an ugly slave with lip plates, the slave traders ignored those communities anytime they came to catch slaves. That is how the lip plates protected those communities. In my country for example, people threw themselves into the ocean and died because they did not want to die in a foreign land. However in East Africa, those people did not kill themselves. Instead they disfigured themselves to make them look ugly and that saved them. The lip plates wasn't compulsory in those days and even now it is not compulsory. No mother will like to loose her baby so mothers in those days advised their young girls to put lip plates in order to prevent them from being taking away to some foreign land. Some of the girls obeyed their parents and put lip plates and remained in their homeland. Others ran away from home because they did not want to put lip plates in their lips and most of those who ran away, ended up on the ship. Only obedient children obeyed their parents and put lip plates so lip plating became a symbol of obedience and respect. Obedience and respect are characteristics of beauty and that is why the lip plate is a sign of beauty in these communities. The same way an albino tattoos himself in order to survive in the deep jungle, these communities put lip plates so as to protect them from being taken away to foreign lands and although it appears barbaric, I don't think God will punish them for putting lip plates to help them survive.

There are many things we Africans don't know and that is why sometimes we behave strangely. However, America is a well developed country and most people in America are very well educated so I always expect Americans and people in other developed countries to behave in certain ways.

Botox is a toxin. However, "everyone on this earth has different morals therefore it remains a personal decision". Adults know botox is toxic yet they inject it because it makes them look younger. Adults are old enough to make personal choices but not so many 8 year old kids are smart enough to make those personal choices. Adults can inject themselves with botox but is it morally right for adults to inject 8 year old kids who don't know botox is toxic?