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on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:45PM
from the they-suspected-he-had-frickin-lasers dept.
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A man dressed as a shark has been fined under new anti-burqa laws in Austria. A PR agency has admitted the incident was a stunt designed to make a "socially relevant" point.
Police had confronted a man on Friday after he was seen promoting a new outlet of the McShark electronics store in Vienna in a costume that covered his face. When he refused to remove his shark head, he was given a fine of €150 ($176).
[...] Regional daily Österreich reported the officers acted after a call from an unidentified member of the public. Police had suspected the report came from someone who wished to prove a point about the new laws.
http://www.dw.com/en/austria-burqa-ban-man-dressed-as-shark-falls-afoul-of-new-law/a-40872491
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Friday October 20 2017, @03:30AM (3 children)
When you try to combat injustice by banning people from wearing certain clothing, you have already failed. We must respect people's individual liberties first and foremost. If some people are being forced to wear these clothes or are being attacked for not doing so, then we should handle that on an individual basis, even if we can't catch all the bad guys.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @03:18PM (2 children)
Why? Any scientific reason for that? Where's the respect for liberties of children or the mentally retarded/unstable?
My guess is the OP wants to draw a line where even adults don't have that much liberty. Like parents forcing children to behave in certain ways till they hopefully grow mature enough to understand why it actually makes sense.
Personally it's fine with me for people to wear almost whatever they want as long as it's safe for wherever they are wearing it[1]. Or even not wear anything.
But lots of people can't handle that. Nudity or semi-nudity may have too strong an effect on many young males with raging hormones... My guess is it might be more "hard-wired".
From what I see "traditional clown outfits" seem to cause more distress to children than people in burqas, so if anything we should ban people from being in clown outfits in public places. See also: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/international/news/1.116934 [sheffield.ac.uk]
Clowns scare many kids even when it's their first time seeing one. But burqas don't seem to bother most kids much. Seems to me that the aversion against burqas is more like a developed prejudice. So perhaps we should allow or even encourage burqas in public to help weed out the prejudiced adults who can't control themselves ;).
[1] For example, when near moving machinery no wearing of stuff that could easily be accidentally snagged in it.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday October 21 2017, @12:33AM
What does that mean? Why do I need a "scientific reason" to make a value judgement? Even if you could scientifically demonstrate that doing X would lead to some result that could be deemed positive by some people, that wouldn't change the fact that the question of whether we 'should' do X or not would still be entirely subjective.
People can disagree with me and be authoritarian trash if they wish to.
I don't know. Are you assuming I agree with the lack of respect for their liberties? There are countless situations where I do not agree with that.
Some people can't handle nudity? Too bad for those people. Government thugs shouldn't be able to control what you wear or stop you from being nude. Anyone could be offended by anything, so why do we only pay attention to people offended by things such as nudity? Why not listen to people who don't want to see others wearing red shirts, for instance? Their concerns are not any less valid. My guess is that a lot of the people in power are just forcing their own preferences on everyone else by restricting what people can do even if they are harming no one.
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:11PM
Granting that puberty is a tough time: what a crock of shit. Respect your fellow humans' rights or society has no obligation to respect yours, there's no excuse "his face offended me with its ugliness, I couldn't help but shoot him" that flies in any reasonable forum or courtroom. If the natural human form provokes you to uncontrollable reaction, you either need therapy or a cell at the zoo.
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