Cosmetic Surgery

The difference between body modification and cosmetic surgery can, I guess, be debated. Personally I think that cosmetic surgery is mainly used to bring a person closer to societal standards, and body modification is mainly used to separate a person from those standards. Body modifications like piercings, tattoos etc are seen as a novelty, and not as a normalizing procedure. Perhaps body modifications don't fall under the stipulations of the Hippocratic Oath, but I think that it's still important that the proper care is taken in these kinds of situations. Or hell, let's just attack the root of the problem. Why are people fascinated with getting star implants in their heads? Maybe if we could figure it out, there'd be no need for those kinds of measures. But that of course, hinges on its dependence on societal standards. But if it wasn't constructed around societal ideals, then we'd just have to accept that it's just part of some people's natures, even if we don't understand it. In which case proper care should be distributed to those practices, since it would have nothing to do with social deviance and thus would not affect the Hippocratic Oath. But that won't happen anytime soon. These kinds of matters just expand into so many dimensions of humanity. It becomes not just an individual preference, but a political, social and philosophical matter. So basically all of what I just said really didn't go anywhere. Geez. I don't know if there's any kind of answer to these problems, but I certainly hope I live to see some progress.