<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:39 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 24/04/2020 13:35, SR Ballard wrote:<br>
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The government cannot make you buy something.</span> - <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">spike</span>
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<div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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. </span></div>
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Whaaaat????<br>
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How does being naked in public turn you into a sex offender??<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Part of the problem is turning social norms into laws, out of a reaction to people who don't share said norms.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>This flabbergasts me almost as much as the idea of 'school police'.<br>
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America appears to be a deeply weird place.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div>