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Originally Posted by infinitemusic
How do you know it's conspicuous? If they're showing it to everyone and talking about it all the time, sure, but even then that doesn't automatically make it less "sincere". How would it?
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I consider tattoos to be an objectification of one's passion, an object that also has historically had a certain level of social credibility. At a certain point, some have conjured passions only in order to have a tattoo. The object of the tattoo overcomes that which it signifies.
Now, sure, a person can still have a truly meaningful tattoo that doesn't give in to the social credibility but even then I believe that passion is a thing of the spirit and not the skin. The tattoo is always an inferior rendition of the original sentiment.