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Can I also ban anything I dislike seeing around in public? Or is this one of the "rules for thee, but not for me" things? I'm genuinely curious about what goes

• sofixa 2y ago
  What obviously flawed measures? Many things are banned in public - depending on locale, some combination of nudity, sex, alcohol consumption, smoking tobacco, wearing religious head coverings, urination and defecation, etc.
  • johngladtj 2y ago
    Laws that are purely intended to enforce cultural norms, rather than having an actual societal purpose. What I see when someone proposed stuff like this is someone saying "my views on how you should behave should be forced on others through violence", a view that is flawed because by its very existence it fundamentally justifies the very opposite policy. If you can force your views on others purely because you are in power, then others are also legitimate in forcing their views on you when they are in power... But somehow I suspect that when you look at how a country like Saudi Arabian treats your preferred group like women or LGBT, your first reaction is not to say "they are right in treating them this way".
    • sofixa 2y ago
      > Laws that are purely intended to enforce cultural norms, rather than having an actual societal purpose Banning harmful substances, or their use in public (to lower the amount of people exposed to them, and to lower the chance of younger people taking them up isn't "cultural norms". It actually genuinely works, and has public health benefits.