Body modification artist charged with GBH, despite written consent

Such a shame to see this. Dr. Evil is a good guy.

This is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard in my life. We own our bodies, and the State has absolutely zero standing to regulate what we can do to our own bodies, or what we can allow someone else to do.

The problem in this story is the State, and not "Dr Evil".

You might ask: Would you split your 20 year old child's tongue in half or cut off their ear? Then why would you do somebody else's? For normal decent people, it takes some sort of learned desensitization to do this to somebody. Like the way soldiers kill other people.