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Comment comment by markmcb on 08 October 2006

I agree. It's the same reason you can't walk around in the nude in public. That would certainly be excercising a great deal of liberty, but the fact is that it does something intangibly negative to everyone around you. It's not too much to ask a nudist to wear clothes in public and be nude in private. Likewise, I don't think it's too much to ask others who participate in a social group to make similar sacrifices in order to maintain social norms.

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RE: Yes by LordDilly :: NR8

Ironically enough, the same people who are claiming "civil liberties" pertaining to the veil are also refusing cab service to blind people with seeing-eye dogs and people carrying alcohol. Whose "rights" are trumped? This quote is telling: "The owner of the minicab firm, Niven Sinclair, was also very insensitive, telling me {the blind lady} that what had happened to me wasn't really very important, and I should have more respect for other people's culture." No, she shouldn't. Not to the point that you have to subsume your own culture - the culture of the land you also happen to live in. This is insane. Y'all who deployed remember the Cultural Sensitivity training that admonished us to not be "an Ugly American?" Why is there no admonitions against being an "Ugly Immigrant?" Can you imagine the fallout if a Christian pulled something like this? When does it stop?

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