It's interesting that on a poker site where a person's physical description is inserted into every story to give "background info", we have so many people who are immune to judgment.

I just learned that, since it's not a protected class, it's perfectly legal not to rent to people with tattoos and I think that's pretty awesome.

Yes, of course I take information from the choices people make about their appearance, their clothes their hairstyle their cleanliness, and yes, a tattoo on their face all result in different "judgements". And then I continue to take in more information, visibly and audibly about the person to narrow down who that person is and what kind of person they are. Sometimes, further information isn't required- if someone has racist or gang-related tattoo(s) on their neck / face (or anywhere on the body really) , I dont need anymore information. Generally speaking, tattoos on the neck, and definitely on the face, indicate a person is a severe moran.

There are few exceptions, and while i'm sad that sometimes a few good will get mixed in with the bad, i'm willing to make that sacrifice when "discriminating" who gets to be around me and my family / friends.

I agree. But here's the thing, people who body-modify to an extreme degree (or what I would consider to be an extreme degree, anyway) want to be seen and treated differently. That is their goal: Look at me! I'm a special snowflake! I'm ... "art" !

You must not have yet heard of the Church of Body Modification.

You can probably discriminate against employees who don't cover their tattoos or remove their piercings, but I don't recall that housing discrimination has been tested in court on this matter like employment discrimination has.

My info comes from some guy on a podcast. I'm pretty sure I'm right.

I don't think lonely but rich has ever made an unamusing post. Guy's awesome.

Funny, I always wanted to be one of these people growing up. I was pretty angry at the world and it seemed like a good way to express it. Today I'm grateful I never did any of this stuff to myself and looking at what motivated me to want to be like this makes me not really want anything to do with people like this. To me, tattoos and piercings that are out of control scream damaged to me. Call me a jerk, but I have no time to deal with the problems of people who are too weak to figure out their own issues. There are exceptions to my views, but for the most part my judgement towards these types is biased from the get-go.