[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 04:33, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:39 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On 24/04/2020 13:35, SR Ballard wrote:
>>
>> > The government cannot make you buy something. - spike
>>
>> Not true. You are legally obligated (sic) to wear clothes in public or
>> you will be a registered sex offender for the rest of your life.
>>
>>
>> Whaaaat????
>>
>> How does being naked in public turn you into a sex offender??
>>
>
> Nudity, aka public indecency if you're not somewhere where being nude in
> public is explicitly okay.  The "sex offender" might require being
> somewhere specific, such as wandering around an elementary school naked
> (while there are children present, so before or after the current
> coronavirus lockdown).
>
> I don't know about american law, but in blighty, there's an offence known
>> as 'outraging public decency', and this can potentially be used against
>> naked people, but often isn't. The obligation to wear clothes in public is
>> more of a social norm than a legal thing. As it should be.
>>
>
> Part of the problem is turning social norms into laws, out of a reaction
> to people who don't share said norms.
>
>
>> This flabbergasts me almost as much as the idea of 'school police'.
>>
>> America appears to be a deeply weird place.
>>
>
> It is.  So's everywhere else, save the sliver of the world that any given
> person deems "normal".  Parts of America view each other as weird - for
> instance, the portions that accept (or at least tolerate) atheism vs. the
> portions that very much do not.
>

Is there anywhere in the US where an atheist who simply ignored anything to
do with religion (which describes most atheists) would be noticed and
frowned upon?

> --
Stathis Papaioannou
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