Community standards are just a way for the majority to rule the minority.
That is correct, to an extent. Community standards usually apply to such things as local laws made with respect to standards of public conduct and behavior, and education. Community standards do not overrule laws made at state or federal levels with regard to the rights of individuals. In fact, in areas where legal challenges have shown that local community standards violate civil liberties, the civil liberties win and the local standard loses.
And why, may I ask, should it be different? Should minorities rule majorities?
I live in the US not gonna leave. Lived in Germany a country who ideas on the human body I agree with, But have other laws I dont. When it comes to sex the majority or so they claim look at it in the wrong light. My opinion.
You are entitled to your opinion. You seem to believe that your opinion should be the local community standard, perhaps because you are 'right' and the 'so-called majority' is wrong. Does that not strike you as illogical?
As to the implication that the majority is NOT the majority, well, that could be true. Small special interest groups have managed to assert their will in the past, against actual majorities. It would seem to me that in communities where majority vote wins (plebiscites and referendums and ballot measures and the like), if the 'real majority' can't be arsed to vote, then too bad for them. How is that a travesty of justice? SO it is either majority rule or it is the minority that has managed to take advantage of the lazy-assed majority and well, that's the way it goes.
Certain parts of the USA are more tolerant than others.
I have said as much. Time changes community standards as well.
I do wonder which country per capita has more sex crimes, not counting prostitution, the USA or Germany. And if it is the USA could it be that the majorities views on the naked body is to blame?
I doubt anyone could prove things one way or another, but it's a moot point. If the majority of people think that a particular behavior is bad and eschew it, whether or not that has a deleterious effect on the community is beside the point - in a FREE society. If, on the other hand, you would prefer to be ruled by laws determined only to be good for us, then please turn in your freedom and take your number, citizen. Be prepared to give up meat if you're an omnivore, be prepared to be forced to get into good physical condition whether you like it or not, be prepared to provide your personal medical data to the government for their inspection and approval of your lifestyle. After all, if we're going to make laws based on what is known to be good for you, we're all going to have to make a lot of changes.
Freedom means freedom to make choices that may not be in our best interest, but that is the way it goes. Free societies set local standards that they find most acceptable - if it harms them, oh well.
Last trip I made to Daytona Fla. the strip clubs can no longer be nude cause thats what the community standard was. Well this did violate my right to see nudity in a privately owned establishment.
No sir, it did not. Even a privately-owned bar or club is 'public', meaning it can be accessed by the public, and is hence subject to community standards, including such things as health, public safety, and even, yes, nudity.
You could have held a private show in your home - paid strippers to come do their thing for you. THAT is private, and I'd wager THAT would have been legal.
Two things rule this country and Im sure to an extent most countries and that is religion and money. We can argue till this tread reaches a hundred pages but we will never agree. So it really is all a moot point. As for me I like nudity I cannot lie.
Liking nudity is not the issue. I like nudity too. I am neither a prude nor a puritan. I happen to believe that local communities have the right to choose their own local standards. You don't like those standards - I get that. I don't like some of my local standards either. It is the price we pay for living in a society, and local standards are far better than standards applied from afar - and those are the only choices you have. There will always be standards - which kind will you have?
As I have said in this thread - if it is boobies you feel deprived of, you have options. You can view boobies to your heart's content on the interwebs on in adult magazines. You can go to strip clubs in places where the community standards are not so strict. You can visit other countries. You can run for office, or start a petition to change the existing law. You can even move away to another community.
Or, you can sit and gripe about how your rights are being violated because the awful, terrible, majority is stopping you from seeing boobies in the manner to which you have become accustomed.
