content: It's just so pointless. What does getting ink injected under your skin do? We don't have a tradition of tattoos as a tribal status sysmbol or sign of earned respect or something like that. It's just so people will look at your body. Edit: apparently crusaders got tattoos to commemorate their actions, which is kinda cool. But beyond that and mostly lost pagan tribal tattoos Caucasian people don't have much of a culture of tattooing. They painted their bodies, but didn't use tattoos much