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How do you feel about the government issuing dress codes into law?

A young lady was escorted off a plane because her skirt was too short. Atlanta discussing a law that would make it illegal to have pants that are so baggy they show underwear.

How is it in the "free" country, states and municipalities can issue law related to how we dress?

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  • Lou
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    You have a point. It is hard to determine what is socially acceptable in one setting is totally unacceptable in another.

    Anyone who ventures into the fringes of public decency is at risk of reprisal and ridicule. It is the responsibility of all participants to be tolerant of each others choices and sensibilities. Freedom of choice however doesn't give license to offending others, but community values need to allow for a large variety of personal expression as well.

    Reason needs to be evaluated by independent authority, that is why we have a court system and constitutional freedoms of expression.

  • 1 decade ago

    I think it is absolutly rediculous. A dress code in the United States would start an uproar from the people and would probably start another civil war....it would be against the constitution and would stop us from being a free country. I think southwest airlines should get a clue because what they did will really mess up their business and I'm sure many people will stop flying with them...I know I will if they are going to tell me what I can and can't wear. There was nothing wrong with what she was wearing...I've worn things like that to my private catholic school! And also, people are saying things like "Oh, she must not have been wearing underwear"...they have no proof of that so stop telling people that!

  • 1 decade ago

    I personally like it because I think people dress to the extreme. Everyday I see guys boxers and I don't want to see there bottom. I once at six flags saw the bottom of a girls but. It was gross and I don't want to see it. I agree on the dress code on that part. But not if the government starts baning earrings and pants but baggy I am fine with banning.

  • 1 decade ago

    Grant you there are lots of idiot laws passed because we

    keep voting idiots into office. They tell us we can't go nude

    and we say " that's fine, we shouldn't go nude " and every

    one agrees. Why do you think that is? I think it may be

    because we don't want our our children looking at the crack

    of some dummy's a**. Why would anyone want to ware any

    thing that would cause you to lose a fight? You sure can't

    fight if you have to hold your pants up with one hand and you

    can't fight with your paints down your ankles. It don't bother

    me none. I'll take any advantage I can get.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know but dress codes are getting so ridiculous. In my school, they changed the dress code for such petty things. For example: Instead of 1-in tanks, now the straps have to be 2 in. What the crap! The only 2 in. strapped tanks are butt- ugly! Not to mention, what difference does it make? Oh my! You have a 1 in strap of skin showing! OH NO!

    Geez. Can't we just stick to basics and let people show off their personal style?

  • 1 decade ago

    That is bull. People dress to express themselves. Not always for the attention.

  • 1 decade ago

    okay.theres a name for laws like this.in the constitution theres a section that talks about rights and stuff. and one is the rite to wear whatever you want. and so that law would be considered unconstitutional. so there you have it. that can't be a law.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    No it particularly is an attack against very own determination. seem on the human beings who smoke combat for his or her rights? buddy of mine calls himself a "political smoker". He does not smoke. He in no way has. yet advised it sluggish in the past at a la supper club that he and different individuals could henceforward be forbidden to smoke, his instantaneous reaction replaced into to borrow a cigarette from somebody sitting interior of sight, stand, and gentle-weight it up in protest. As he sees it, his pastimes, in terms of his man or woman and civil rights, run parallel with those of human beings who smoke who're being progressively greater stripped of theirs. precisely like many yet another do-gooder-targetted group, human beings who smoke in the present day are nicely alongside contained in the technique of dropping their human rights -- and extra and extra, it form of feels, their very humanity -- to social parasites who, as H.L. Mencken is reputed to have placed it beforehand, awaken contained in direction of the night, sweat- sopping wet and trembling with the morbid worry that someplace, somebody may be happy. earlier, there hasn't been an efficient thank you to weigh down those lice on the yank physique politic -- and their bloodsucking symbionts in media and government -- between the thumb of the 9th modification and the forefinger of the 1st. There was a definite classification of folk -- human beings of a definite shade -- who by longstanding evil custom have been forbidden to take a seat down everywhere on a bus yet on the decrease back. After a century or so of such nonsense, one among them courageously refused to abide by this evil custom, and she or he replaced the direction of yankee historic past perpetually. On yet another social gathering, yet another classification of folk -- people who for motives of their very own take excitement in nicotine in its many varieties -- have been additionally constrained to the decrease back of the bus. in the present day, even that has been taken away.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it's ridiculous. my school changed our dresscode to polos and dress pants. it's so dumb. we have absolutely no way of expressing ourselves.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it sucks. and i agree with your opinion. its our self expression to dress how we want, and who are they to decide who we are???!!

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