(May 31, 2015 at 10:19 pm)KUSA Wrote: Assuming that no one is being harmed or forced to do anything against their will, should we be open enough to go around nude and to have sex on the street corner?
Imagine people having sex on a park bench. Now imagine that you are the one wanting to sit on a park bench, but people have just had sex on it. Do you really want to sit in some strangers' bodily fluids? It just isn't sanitary.
I have no problem with public nudity, but I do have a problem with naked people sitting on public seats. So on a subway or other public transportation, people should be required to be wearing at least shorts. Probably a shirt and shoes would be a good idea, too.
So, if public health is affected, then I care very much what people are doing in public. But I do not care if people are naked in public. (As far as I am concerned, all beaches could be nude beaches.)
As for sex, people make too much noise and are too apt to ignore issues of public sanitation (and everything else) when they are in the heat of passion. So I do not want people having sex in public.
However much you may wish to throw off the shackles of religion, you should keep practical matters in mind.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
