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Anti-Burka Law Bites Shark Mascot

posted by FatPhil on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-suspected-he-had-frickin-lasers dept.

mhajicek writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday October 21 2017, @12:33AM

    by Anal Pumpernickel (776) on Saturday October 21 2017, @12:33AM (#585493)

    Any scientific reason for that?

    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.

    Where's the respect for liberties of children or the mentally retarded/unstable?

    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.

    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".

    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.

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