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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exposing genitalia is banned universally for self-evidente reasons. Covering one's face can be debated for security reasons -- although  suche a ban didn't impede the attacks in Paris, 9/11, and other countless acts of violence -- but that's not the debate France had when the ban was imposed.  
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The government shouldn't determine a dressential code based on "values."[/quote]

you don't realize that you share the ban on genitalia exposed simply because you share those values, not because this is a supposed ban "universally" shared. there are  people in the US who would love to sunbathe in the nude but they cannot go to Virginia beach and do it or they will be arrested.    there are areas in (at least in Africa, in islands in the Pacific  and Australia )  where women normally expose their breasts.  if  some of these women move to the US do you think they should be allowed to walk around wearing sandals, a skirt and naked boobs?   the reality is that they will not be allowed to do it, the government would tell them to cover their boobs based on local decency laws, which are based on current local values[/quote]

I think it is obvious to anyone that these kinds of examples, where some societal norms of decency and modesty are involved, are not comparable to a ban on a face covering.  I think it's a waste of time to continue to draw a parallel between the two types of examples.[/quote]

it's a waste of time because it does not support your statement that the government should not determine a dress code based on "values".  the government does that when it prohibit the walking around in public boobs exposed. you may not realized that this is based on values because it is based on YOUR values, certainly not supposedly universal values.[/quote]

Let me try another way.  Please name a country where everyone goes naked in public, in the streets, and where exposing genitalia is the norm.

If you can't, then I think we can agree that every country in the world (except perhaps some remote tribe) has restrictions about exposing genitalia in public as the norm.  I am using the adjective "universal" as short hand.

But of course you can choose to continue to try to make a parallel between a debate about covering or not covering one's face and a debate between exposing genitalia.[/quote]

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