Nip/Tuck

So I've been watching a show called Nip/Tuck for the past month or so and have become quite enthralled in it. It's about two men who perform plastic surgery and how their lives form around their practice, and the hardships that are dramatized about their lives.
Most of what happens in the show is rather ridiculous and is only thrown in for shock value, but some of the show is actually fascinating and thought provoking.
I find it amazing how present day people seem to have it ingrained in their thoughts that they are inadequate. That to be better in life, one has to make oneself look better artificially. Humans are constantly trying new ways to improve themselves, but plastic surgery may be taking it a step too far.
People start losing who they really are when they start changing their outside image permanently. Liposuction may be a necessity for some people, as might a nose job for someone with the unfortunate problem of having his or her nose broken. It's the breast augmentations, altered cheek bones, and face lifts that strike me as being an excessive beauty treatment that might cause more harm in the long run then good.
People should try to embrace their self image. If we raise our children in a society where they instantly are taught that hating oneself is perfectly normal and a quick fix is all that is needed, then we are raising a population of self mutilating depressed people.
I myself have caught myself looking in the mirror trying to imagine what I would have done to my face or body. I would have my chin reformed, remove the "extra" that I inherited from my father. That in itself is a problem though. My chin is what makes me look like my father. My cheek bones come from my mother. If I change my face I am losing my family appearance, my connection to the my ancestors.
I believe plastic surgery should be taken into consideration only if your body has been seriously altered by some outside force, or if you have some sort of life changing part of your body that needs to be removed.
Overall I find it a little sad that so many people in today's world find it necessary to change themselves to be accepted and found more beautiful. Diversity should be thought of as beautiful.