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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal" data-source="post: 3750514" data-attributes="member: 10433">This is true but there are two important distinctions concerning the game. First, the modifications allow greater than human ability. Second, there is a culture where removal of healthy tissue for cybernetic replacement is encouraged. This is currently not the case for either in our world.There were some case studies that I uncovered where body modification was decidedly harmful. One case involved real body sculpting; a woman had numerous surgeries to obtain a "Barbie" -like figure and appearance. This included shaving bone and transplanting fat from one location of her body to another. She developed significant internal scarring that began to impede her flexibility and her ADLs. There are also case reports of people implanting penile stelae to the point where they are incapable of intercourse. Skin stretches only so far before it tears.The pattern that I saw was those surgeries and implants that were done to repair the body, to regain typical performance, we definately mentally healthy and restorative. Those that chose to modify their body to exceed typical performance or identity (tiger / snake people) display many other self-destructive or risk-taking behaviors.</blockquote>