Aswad
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ORIGINAL: absolutchocolat i think the reasons aren't good enough for you, and that's what drives your argument. they're reasonable and quite valid. Your essential argument appears to remain that breasts, genitals and anuses must be covered up to avoid offending people. It'd be nice to be clear on your position to say anything about whether it's reasonable and/or valid. Would you care to confirm whether or not I've got the gist of it? quote:
none of the nudists are being physically attacked, from what i've read. currently, there's no jail time being enforced, but the proposed legislation would change that. In other words, the proposed legislation would introduce imprisonment and violence (by police and other inmates). Sounds like legislation that should probably be ditched. quote:
quite frankly, having read the class action suit against the ordinance, i'm convinced this is a tactic employed to sell books and drive traffic to the plaintiffs' websites and professional ventures. I'm not particularly interested in the plaintiffs. I'm interested in the American obsession with sex and the popular idea that people need the right to do something, as well as general restrictions on people's rights to make choices that aren't needlessly bounded by others' preferences. Arguing what the plaintiffs' motives are in this case amounts to an ad hominem, though it's directed at them, not me; i.e. answering my question by addressing the character of people that are periphereal to it. IWYW, — Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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