Watching her take that Xacto Knife to the binding of those books gave me roughly the same feeling as if she'd been doing it to kittens for their pretty little eyeballs.

Books are like living things. You just don't vivisect something so casually. Books are containers for ideas, and I think anyone who considers their self even a little bit intellectual would have a serious aversion to their pointless destruction.

Sure, there are a lot of copies of Twilight in the world, and sure, the world wouldn't suffer one iota by the removal of a few of them, but I still wouldn't feel right about randomly cutting up a bunch of them.

I guess it's just the principle of the thing.

It's not as instant as it seems. The skin responds immediately to the burning, but the ink will still be well visible after the burn has healed.

If the tattoo was done by a professional, it will take fewer sessions and be more complete. Amateur tattooists can penetrate your skin too deep making removal much more difficult or just impossible.

The pain is pretty bad and, yes, worse than the original tattoo. Getting a tattoo feels like someone dragging the tip of an Xacto knife backwards over your skin, whereas the laser feels like drops of boiling oil being repeatedly splashed onto your skin.

The laser if wielded by an experienced practitioner (typically not a doctor) will not leave a scar, however the inexperienced may use too much power which causes a more severe burn and does leave a scar, unfortunately. So if you're going to have it done, make sure the person performing the procedure has had many, many hours of experience.

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