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Originally Posted by DtheP47
In a free society, the state must allow citizens to do as they please as long as it doesn't harm others, and to resolve any problems that arise through negotiation and informal give and take, rather than legislating on the minutiae of everyday life in my book.
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I have to agree that "legislating on the minituae of everyday life" is something that has just got to go. But .... a free society is not a simple mechanism; it is a process rather than a thing. Britain's society is what it is because of struggle. Not only the horrendously bloody struggles to defend it in the 20th. c., but the centuries of struggle before that, and the decades of struggle since. And there are not only the formal written laws to consider. There are values which also sum up what it is to be British, (or Quebecois, for that matter). And the face covering stunt is an affront to these values. It symbolizes the kind of Islamist state which is anything but free, and should be accepted and tolerated as much as swastikas, jack boots, jew baiting, and lynching blacks.
It's just a few weeks over a century since Emily Wilding Davison made her brave statement in support of votes for women. Aparently, some haven't gotten the message yet.
The last thing Islamists ... as distinct from Muslims ... want is a free state. They want one as much as Walmart wants free enterprise. Face covering is a symbol of the Islamist state.