(June 3, 2024 at 5:02 am)Belacqua Wrote:(June 2, 2024 at 10:01 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I hold that no government has any business telling people how to dress or what they do with their bodies.
If you went into Walmart stark naked, the police would make you leave. You'd get a ticket, probably, if you weren't Baker Acted.
If your mom wanted to go to McDonald's topless, she would get in trouble.
Our society has rules dictating how we dress. Different societies tell people they have to cover up different bits. I assume you're OK with your government enforcing the anti-naked-in-Walmart law, which means that you accept legal limits on dress -- just different ones from some other countries.
Surely you know the difference between social mores and government laws. The two overlap at times, but I should hope that what I wrote was clear: the government shouldn't tell people how to dress, nor should it seize bodily autonomy from any upstanding citizen barring the commitment of a crime.
Is there anything else you need explained to you?
