re: #252 CuriousLurker

Cultural bias aside, I’d think that people walking around naked could present serious public health issues. Not everyone has a high standard of personal hygiene, then there are communicable diseases, etc.

That is likely true, and is part of the reason underwear was invented.

I’m not saying everybody should go around naked, there are a lot of good practical reasons people wear clothes. What I am saying is we should stop overreacting when confronted with public nudity. In the case of the woman peeling off her top in among a group of kids, the reaction was extreme and based on puritanical ideas based not on practical matters but left over bias from religion.

People tend to conflate cultural bias with what they consider common sense and assume that common sense should be taken as an absolute.