Should it be legal for women to be topless in public?

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No

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Wow, what a stupid poll result

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Should it be legal to blast music at night while other people are trying to sleep?

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Nudity does tend to disturb people, which is why it's outlawed in the first place.

I suppose one could wear ear plugs if he does not like the music.

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Nudity disturbs people to the same extent that expressing an unpopular opinion disturbs people.

No, it sickens people, much like dumping garbage next to your lawn.

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You can not derive from libertarianism a right to disturb other people.

I support the GOP because I believe its policies are more pro-liberty than the alternative, not because I agree with everything it does.

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I voted yes simply beacuse I find the idea of a topless woman getting arrested so ridiculous.

I find the idea of legalized public nudity ridiculous.

What potential 'abuse' are you talking about?

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Well, that's why you word the statute properly.

Also, why would the fact that only ugly people are likely to do this make the situation LESS disturbing?

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So only ugly people will go nude. Yeah, that makes it way better.

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I don't know. There's always someone willing to do anything.

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You can not derive from libertarianism a right to disturb other people.

There's a difference between being disturbed and being offended. One does not have the right to not be offended.

Uh, on your property, you have the right not to be offended, to the extent practicable.

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I claim to be a libertarian conservative, in that I support some causes that would not traditionally be identified with 'conservatism,' however defined (legalization of drugs and prostitution, abolishing the FCC, and so forth).

I do not, however, believe one should be able to blast music all the time, while other people are trying to do other things, or let dead animals rot on his front yard, while other people have to smell it. There are a lot of gray areas, because what you do on your property is going to affect how others enjoy theirs.

I think the GOP has become more, not less, pro-liberty in the last 25 years.

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Considering that one of the groups whose pictures you proudly display in your signature is blatantly against certain types of 'free speech', I find it somewhat amusing that you claim to believe in 'free speech'. Obviously I don't completely and unwaveringly support it either, but the fact that NOW constantly throws fits over anything it considers 'anti-woman' and 'offensive' doesn't convince me that it believes in 'free speech'.

By 'free speech,' people usually mean that the government shouldn't be regulating free expression. Simply attacking someone for something he said would not be anti- 'free speech' under that definition, and I would think under any definition, would itself be speech.