I think that whenever one person deliberately, willfully and permanently physically harms another person it is always the business of government to punish the violator to discourage others from doing the same.
“I think that whenever one person deliberately, willfully and permanently physically harms another person it is always the business of government to punish the violator to discourage others from doing the same. “
but that’s not the case here because there was
-no physical harm. If there was, then the govt wouldn’t allow anyone to give a tattoo unless he was a doctor.
-kid wanted it and Mom approved
-it was to remember his dead brother. It’s not as if he wanted to do something ‘cool’ one day on a whim