What's Up With Elf Ears?

I don't get it.
Why would a person be allowed to mutilate another person's ears?
I understand why kids would do it: get a rise out of us oldsters, be part of the herd while making a bold statement, turn heads, cry for help without cutting their wrists.

I met several kids working in Yellowstone who had enormous, we're talking two inch diameter, rings embedded in their ear lobes instead of your every day pierced ears. Sort of African Bush.

Kids forget one day they'll be looking over a senior coffee, reading the town blotter, fighting a spreading waiste line, drawing on eye brows and plucking rouge hairs.
Like the rest of us.

Then, how are they gonna feel about the ears that were clipped at the top, sewn back together, allowed to heal in a definitely pointed Elfshape?
Body art, common tattoos and multiple piercings just don't rate anymore cause us Near Senior-hoods are doing it too. Clearly the way to discourage stupid behavior.

So, my solution?
All of us with less than half a century of life expectancy go get your ears mutilated.
That will stop this trend dead in its tracks.