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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
The problem with extreme body horror is that the rest of society may begin to classify the offender as sufficiently inhuman to warrant killing after a certain point. If the modification is grotesque enough to cause fright checks, then the offender will likely have people attempting to kill them out of self-defense of their sanity. After a certain point, vigilantes will hunt down the offender and kill them, just to prevent anyone else from having been scarred by the offender's visage. Even lesser forms of body horror could have individuals arrested and imprisoned for obscenity.
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This is strangely parallel to a less futuristic type of not guilty plea, one appealing to having failed a fright check too. But seems like at least in your land, society is growing a thicker skin in terms of being exposed to such non-futuristic sights of 'obscene horror', and hopefully will also grow a thicker skin when it comes to witnessing people enjoying their morphological freedom.