Essay, Research Paper: Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery


What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see yourself or do you see the results of modern day surgery? Plastic surgery has given people the opportunity to change their entire appearance, and has taken the word "makeover" to a whole new height. It seems that everywhere you go people are using plastic surgery to change their physical appearance. Although this may sound great, the truth behind all the hype isn't so wonderful.
Many of the unfortunate few that see the downsides of plastic surgery can not do anything to fix their situation. For example, in New York there was a case in which a woman at the age of 21 wanted to get a nose job so that she could have the perfect nose. Twenty years later, she would be happy if she could breathe through her nose. In many cases like this, plastic surgeons are unable to guarantee a perfect operation, therefore leaving you with the possibility of being scarred for life. In another unsuccessful case similar to this, a woman in China decided to have plastic surgery on her eyes to make her eyes more beautiful, but after all was said and done she was left with one eyelid inside-out. What everyone must understand is that there is a great risk of something going wrong that could put you worse off than when you began.
Besides looking at the defects that plastic surgery can cause physically, you must also examine the defects of it from a moral aspect. Do you believe that it is morally right to change the body that God gave you, and to transform that into something you're not? One of the great things about the human race is that there is no one person exactly like yourself, so why do you want to throw away your ability to be who you are, to be someone your not?
Finally, the most common reason to go through with this procedure is to make yourself look good, and to try to make others like you. The truth of the matter, however, is that if someone only likes you because of you "bought" appearance then they don't actually like you, they merely like the results of present day plastic surgery. Instead of worrying about your outside appearance you should concern yourself more with what you are like on the inside rather than what you are like on the outside. Even though plastic surgery may make you look good physically, you can't put a price on true beauty, the beauty that comes from within.
The facts are evident, now it depends on you, are you going to fall under this wrath like many others, or are you going to take a stand and say, " I am who I am, and there's no one else quite like me!"

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