>>9421174Tattoos serve a purpose as others have said as markers on your body in times of war or even just time at sea. Your bloated, rotted, chopped up corpse might be indistinguishable but that serial number, unit emblem etc could mean the difference between a confirmed KIA and your family having something to bury and knowing what happened - or you being permanently missing forever.
Any other tattoo is beyond degenerate. I say this despite being a retired rifleman of the Australian Army, wanting to put pic related on my upper right arm and over my heart; "Dulce et Decorum Pro Patria Mori" - It is sweet and proper to die for the fatherland. However I am also resolved that if I need reminding via disfiguring my body any further with ink, how to live and what to live and potentially die for, then I was never serious about it to begin with.
I do not need others to see or know what I believe either. It is vain, and self indulgent.
