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Governments and telling people how they're allowed to dress. Name a more iconic duo.
Religion and telling people how they’re allowed to dress predates governments.
All religion should be banned.
Pretty hard to say since they both go so far back, and in past times there was no distinction between them.
Religion today is voluntary, at least in most of the world.
Banning religion is just replacing one master with another. No thanks.
You often don't have the autonomy to not participate in religion as a child if your parents want you to.
True but I mean no one respects child autonomy anyway, so we would need to levy that criticism far more widely if we want to take it seriously.
Plus I'm not sure I trust governments to protect child welfare more than their parents do. Parents are imperfect but when governments get it wrong the consequences are far more catastrophic.
yup. we need to listen to kids more and treat them with more respect and do more to protect their rights. dress codes don't remotely accomplish this and do the opposite