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Look, when I travel to foreign countries and I have, I follow their local laws and customs. I attire myself properly, and avoid cultural faux pas (illegal or just embarrassing). I don't know why I'm being painted as a picture of an obnoxious, entitled American tourist who runs all over the world, waving money around, mocking the people living there and not caring about local customs.
I'm expressing the opinion that more freedom is better, period. If you want to walk around naked, that's just fine with me. I live in the Bay Area. I don't have to go very far to see guys walking around with their dicks hanging out of their pants in front of City Hall and women without shirts on right beside them. I suppose that opinion conflicts with basically all current government systems, but so be it. I think "being offended" by what people happen to be themselves doing is a lousy reason to make something a crime, and that what is offensive is so different between individuals that trying to have a societal norm is all but meaningless.
If someone were to walk up to you and flash you with the intent of offending or scandalizing you, that's very different than a person being comfortable being naked. As it is different to happen to be eating in public versus walking up to a person and rubbing his nose in the fact that he's fasting.
This isn't an east versus west I hate Arabs or Muslims tirade. I think it's nonsense for the government to be micromanaging life that way. I think it's up for individuals, businesses, families, clubs, etc. to make lifestyle choices like that. I'm happy for people to carry on their personal lives however they want. I think it's poor government to have those individual choices be a norm. I think there's a good reason for there to be a separation of church and state, and if that automatically makes me insensitive to the east, I guess I'll just have to accept that label.
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