[quote=TheMercenary;391577]I must say that until we do a large scale study of all people with tats or piercings we cannot make comments about people who have them. There really is no imperical data to support such notions.
True, but we need even more
We need to randomly select (say...) 10,000 people with tattoos and/or piercings, and 10,000 people without tattoos and or piercings, and compare the incidence of anti-social behavior between the two groups.
Then we will have empirical data ... but then what?
Suppose there is a difference, and that the tattooed group is more anti-social? Are we then allowed to exclude one INDIVIDUAL because of a resemblance to a group? What about (this is true) my 65-year-old, law abiding mother, who is a retired community nurse and active Justice of the Peace, with a lotus flower tattooed on her ankle? Yeah she's trouble, she is...
Suppose there is no difference. Are private groups allowed to limit the memberships of their groups to "people like us"? Or does the state have the right to force groups to admit members no one in the group likes? I find the former distasteful and the latter outrageous.
(A dangerous topic for my first post! Gee, I hope you guys like me!
)