[MD] Intellect battles the (immigrant) barbarians

[Arlo Bensinger]

Greetings Khaled,

As always, I appreciate your reasoned voice.

[Khaled]
A head cover such as the one a Catholic nun would wear, like a habit. It's 
interesting how one is considered devotion to one religion and the other 
becomes the battle cry for religious bigotry.

[Arlo]
The only moral tangent to this, for me, is whether or not there is force. 
When a Catholic nun wears a habit, or a Muslim woman a shador, it should be 
a matter of choice. There should be no laws compelling women of either 
culture to conceal themselves involuntarily - based on whether or not those 
parts "turn men on", nor should there be laws compelling women of either 
culture to display themselves in a way they do not wish to.

This was the underlying criticism of Platt's ridiculous charge the "freeing 
women from the veil" through laws that forbade women from donning them was 
a victory of "Intellect over degeneracy". The Intellectual victory would be 
in freeing women to make the choice for themselves. Not in moving from one 
forced activity to another.

Does society have the right to enforce certain behavior? Yes. As I said, 
with wisdom gleaned from daughter, if the concealment of body parts is 
based in legitimate hygienic concerns of the transmission of germs, 
disease, etc., then such forcible concealment, for the greater public good, 
is moral. But when that concealment is based on nothing more than "I find 
parts of your body dirty", then we are seeing the immoral application of 
societal coercion. Indeed, the gross perversion of finding "body parts 
dirty" rather than natural and beautiful is strikingly revealing of a 
sexually immature mindset.

Furthermore, the concealment of body parts does not have to do with just 
the sexual proclivities of immature men, but with the attempt to turn women 
into property. "Those are MY boobs, and you are not allowed to show them to 
anyone else". I mean, ask Ham or Platt if they would mind their wives going 
topless in public. This is the reason why. From finding the human body 
indecent or obscene, to forcibly concealing body parts culture has deemed 
"sexual", to the objectification and ownership of women, it all boils down 
to sexual immaturity and ownership. Hardly "Intellectual" patterns being 
victorious over social patterns.

[Khaled]
So lets leave the bigotry and anti Semitics out of the dialog.

[Arlo]
Remember to whom you speak.