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Where I live, we are allowed to dock the tails of many breeds of dog and many respectable breeders with AKC or CKC registered dogs will dock the tails before selling the puppies. You are not allowed to dock tails after the bones within it harden. Same with the cartilage in the ears. However, ear cropping is only allowed in the doberman breed.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but you shouldn't be so quick to judge. Many people have to consider what sort of lifestyle they live based upon. Casper was given to me as a demo dog for training and as protection because I am a young woman living on my own. It's safer for me to have a more intimidating looking dog, which cropped ears tend to give the impression of. So beauty is only part of it.
I'm a supporter of free choice. If you want to crop and dock your dogs ears and tails, by all means, that is your choice and you are free to make it. At the same time, if you would like to leave them be, that is also your choice and I will never see the two as any different and never say an ill word about it unless one is said to me first.