"Trading on people's insecurities or just another form of personal grooming.
Is it the confidence boosting, image enhancing miracle it claims to be or is it slowly subtly standardising our population and preying on the weak and vulnerable.
What started life as a very rare and drastic procedure to help victims of burns, dilapidating diseases and other suchlike atrocities to live a more normal and fulfilling life, has snowballed to such a magnitude that girls as young as fourteen are wanting tummy-tucks, nose jobs and breast enlargements.
Has it gone a step too far or is it ones right to express themselves in their own individual and unique way.
If plastic surgery always succeeded in achieving its objectives, was exempt of pain and was free of charge the only protests against its practice would be ethical ones. Is it right to "defy" God and choose how you look - every inch; every minute detail.
However, as good as the option of plastic surgery sounds for correcting that wonky nose or removing that big hairy mole, the only arguments against it are not ethical ones - there is only too real a risk of side effects, unsatisfactory results not to mention a much lighter wallet (or purse in the majority of cases.).
Some may say that choosing this option is to turn your back on your roots and lose your individuality. Will this soon become a nation in which the only blemish will be our ego's - no sticky out ears nor cellulite, just walking talking personifications of the media's opinion of "beauty.".
Has the modern-day obsession with "attractiveness" been taken too far and if today's young girls watching the "stick-insect"- like models on the catwalks of Europe are becoming obsessed with their weight and looks - what will it be like tomorrow when their mothers, aunties, teachers and even grannies are looking just like this.