Tattoos are regarded by intelligent people as an indicator of thought processes that are not mature or capable of consideration of long-term ramifications of ones actions.
Tattoos have an immediate impact on people looking at them, and it's rarely positive.
Substantial size tattoos pyschologically promote aggression, are always immediately linked to criminality, and generally lower a persons status in most societies.
I often wonder what a lot of the younger generation who are being actively recruited by mostly bikie-run tattoo parlours, to cover themselves with what I refer to as "body graffiti", will consider how stupid it was to indulge in their ill-thought-out decisions to cover themselves in tattoos, in their older years.
Many tattoos very quickly lose any relevance, particularly those related to events. Many other tattoos merely promote aggressiveness from those easily pushed into aggression.
One only has to see the hard-core criminals covered from head to foot in graffiti to understand that there's some serious pyschological disturbance involved with those people who see substantial tattooing as something to be proud of.
And lastly - why would anyone with a modicum of sense, inject their largest body organ (their skin) with substantial amounts of inks and dyes that rate as "foreign bodies" in their system, and which stay there for life, with dubious long-term health effects?