Thread:Comments:France first to enforce burqa ban/Citizenship classes?/reply (3)

While many of society's laws are created to prevent people from being offended, for example the, very relevant, law against public nudity in general, I know it is impossible to keep everyone from being offended all the time and in trying to do so society often tramples upon a very basic human right: free speech. These women should be able to express themselves by wearing burqas, just as much as someone should be able to use "foul" language without being in serious danger of law enforcement intervening. I think that people take things too personally and then hand the responsibility of change off to the government. If the people of France in general are offended by the wearing of burqas then they should promote a social movement against it and confront those practitioners in a way in which nothing is obligatory. I think people are involving themselves to heavily in other peoples' affairs, forcing their own beliefs upon them. This type of law making is not a staple of progressive society but instead of "backward" countries like Iraq, or a better example would be the acid attacks in Srinagar, India, force women to wear the coverings. Governments should be protective (from things like war, and environmental destruction) and liberative (enforcing people's rights to do certain things, like women's right to vote), not domineering and controlling.