• JackGreenEarth
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    910 months ago

    You know plastic surgery doesn’t involve actual plastic, right? Its just making your body plastic meaning, flexible, by changing it.

    • @[email protected]
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      -710 months ago

      And you know that plastic can be a term used to mean non-organic, right? Especially for plastic-adjacent materials like silica gel and silicone-encased breast implants. Or the silicone and polythene that is often used for facial implants.

      And plastic surgery does not make the body more flexible (many plastics are quite rigid). It modifies the shape of parts of the body.

      • JackGreenEarth
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        610 months ago

        I didn’t say it made the body more flexible, it is rather a way of temporarily enabling the body to change, a state of temporary plasticity.

        • @[email protected]
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          -510 months ago

          It’s just making your body more plastic, meaning flexible, by changing it

          I didn’t say it made your body more flexible

          Hmmm.

          • @[email protected]
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            610 months ago

            Plasticity = malleable

            Flexible is correct, but given the context malleable is more appropriate.