There's a serious ethical discussion regarding Body Dysmorphic Disorder and people who want a limb amputated, for instance, but I don't see this as any different than getting your breasts enlarged, or a nose job, or liposuction. It's an elective cosmetic procedure.
Weird question that isn't remotely related to this discussion.
I watched a documentary about this. It's virtually impossible to find a doctor willing to do it. Many of them damage the limb to force an amputation. Guy kept his leg in a bucket of dry ice until they had to remove it.
Why are so many people in the reply making this about kids? The subject of this story isn't a kid. Matt didn't mention kids, and neither did I. Why is your first thought in a discussion about adults "BUT KIDS!"?

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It blows my mind that YouTubers are mad at a show because they spent two months focusing on details that turned out to not matter because the show had a very specific focus in never actually broke the entire time. That's on you, not on them.
Not every mystery is a puzzle for you to solve before the reveal, and I'm sorry that your day job is making videos speculating about such things. It's not a show's fault that it doesn't exist to serve your professional content creation niche. It told a small story.
Not going to call out anyone by name but wow, some of these YouTubers really need to step outside their own heads and listen to what they sound like. Blaming THE SHOW for wasting your time speculating on theories that turned out to be wrong. Seriously, have some self-awareness.
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Is ebay really banning listings of the PROBLEMATIC Dr. Seuss books?
I can see the book he tried to sell listed on ebay so I'm not sure why it would get flagged (he says he used the ISBN number, so maybe that's how).
Looking now, "And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street" has many different ISBNs depending on which edition it is. If ebay only plugged some of them into the algo, that would mean only specific versions would get auto-flagged.
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The republican grifter obsession with cancel culture is bad, but another bad trend is that nobody defends these decisions anymore. The argument now is universally "you care about small things that don't matter" and I don't accept that. This stuff always starts from the bottom.
Also the problem isn't the changing of Mr. Potato Head or the removal of some Dr. Seuss books. The problem is when people start getting in trouble for letting their kids play with a Mr. Potato head or bring a problematic Dr. Seuss book to school. THAT'S where things are headed.
Josh Hawley losing a book deal over things he himself did as a public official is not cancel culture. Someone getting fired or shunned or shamed on social media for reading Josh Hawley's book is cancel culture and that shit absolutely happens.
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Look at the date on this. LOOK AT IT.
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