It's their right to do this, and it's my right to think that they're moronic for risking their eyesight and possible further complications for nothing more than "doing something relatively new".
You try to equate the risks, Mr. Pumpernickel, with crossing the streets, as if all risks are equally risky, or equally justified. The difference is that I cross the street to go to my job and make a good living, to go to my girlfriend's so we can have sex, to go to the art store to pick up more paint... in other words, the risk/benefit ratio makes the minimal risk worthwhile. What benefit do they achieve with this risk except getting a "first!" in the body mod community? What value does that community have when it rewards pointless risk like this?
You try to equate the risks, Mr. Pumpernickel, with crossing the streets, as if all risks are equally risky, or equally justified. The difference is that I cross the street to go to my job and make a good living, to go to my girlfriend's so we can have sex, to go to the art store to pick up more paint... in other words, the risk/benefit ratio makes the minimal risk worthwhile. What benefit do they achieve with this risk except getting a "first!" in the body mod community? What value does that community have when it rewards pointless risk like this?