Quote: (05-20-2015 01:07 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
I read that Singapore used to enforce vigorously its "personal appearance" codes. If you were dressed like a deviant freak, you could get your hair cut, be forced to change clothes, or even deported.
We like to laugh at the "religious police" in Saudi Arabia and Iran who make sure people don't walk around looking like despicable monstrosities.
Now I'm not so sure. Once you throw social standards out the window (like we have here in the West) then it's just a free-for-all. No rules. Anything goes. And look at what that's gotten us. Complete social breakdown.
I concur. When you stop holding people to some kind of standard, then you gradually start to see societal disintegration.
But most people don't 'get' this.
I came from a religious background and even though I'm not religious anymore, it's only now, decades later, that I'm starting to develop a quiet admiration and respect for the traditions, discipline and self restraint practised and preached by our brethren.