Legalize public nudity?

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Option 1.

Nudity should be legal in all public places. (Private property is up to the owner.)

Even if nudity is tasteless is some cases, this alone does not make the argument for illegality.

Besides, it would be good for society to become more accepting of the human body.

As far as children are concerned, exposure to the human body may actually be educational.

With regards to parental authority, given that nudity would likely not be present everywhere, parents can choose where to go with their kids. (Parents may also prefer to "protect" children from other things they may find offensive; yet there usually is no legal protection.)

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I don't have any moral objections to it but i wouldn't want to be grossed out either.

Exactly...I wouldn't want to be grossed out either, and would prefer for people to act in good taste, but don't see a legal argument against public nudity.

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Legalise it in designated areas, eg. beaches, but don't allow nudity everywhere. I wouldn't like to see someone's privates dangling in front of me on the train to work.

You wouldn't?!?!?

I wouldn't. But what someone does with their own body is nobody's business except their own.

Exactly. I don't approve of nudity in a lot of cases, but I feel that restrictions on personal behavior should be minimal.

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Not in public.

On private property the owner can decide.

It is interesting that many free market conservatives would oppose the second sentence.

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Certainly having some common decency isn't "wrong" even by a liberals rather pathetic standards.

Having common decency isn't "wrong"--the issue is, is it the government's responsibliity to enforce it?