Does a tattoo need to have meaning? Sure, lots of people get tattoos to commemorate or remember something. I have a matching tattoo with my siblings that’s meaningful to me. But I don’t think a tattoo has to have meaning or it’s stupid. My sister has a cute little squirtle tattoo that she got bc they had a holiday sale for small tattoos. It doesn’t have any meaning aside from she thinks squirtle is cute. But it makes her happy. Isn’t that enough? Sure she might get it covered up or removed later in life, but for now it makes her happy and I think that makes it worth it. I think a lot of what makes life meaningful is the small, meaningless stuff that simply makes us happy

I won’t begrudge op their opinion to not like tattoos; they’re posting their opinion in the right community. If op was saying that all tattoos are stupid bc willingly stabbing ink into your skin is stupid, then I wouldn’t necessarily disagree. It’s certainly an unnecessary risk. But to say that most tattoos are stupid bc op doesn’t think the tattoo is worth having, I think that’s unfair. They don’t get to decide what’s a worthy tattoo. But the most important part is op acknowledges that it’s not their body, so other people can do what they want. Op can just hit people with the “if it makes you happy/if you like it, then that’s what matters” when people ask their opinion on the new tattoo