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In America it seems there is a growing trend to regulate everything.
We are a spoiled society, and apparently one that refuses to accept other people's differences.
As we move around the world enforcing our form of "freedom" on others, we are really just forcing them to do things they way we want them done.

I find it alarming that so many people in this country feel the need to impose their standards on others. Whether we do it to our own citizens, or to citizens around the globe, we believe that we set the "standard" for good, bad, right, wrong.

We want to tell people what they can and can't think, say, feel, believe, do, and yes, even wear. Funny that we refer to ourselves as a "free" country. When being "free" for me means that I am "free" to regulate everyone else according to my own personal preferences, I have not fully understood the concept of freedom.

Why do we have young people who are wearing these types of clothes, getting tatoos, piercings, brandings, dying their hair bright pink, or yellow? Because it is their right to do so. You can regulate their lives to some extent, but the more you do, the more they will choose to rebel, standing up for what little freedoms they feel they have. The freedom to wear what they choose, and to look how they choose, to make the music they choose, to live the life they choose.

Wake up America. The more you try to regulate people according to your set of standards, the more you attempt to impose on other people's rights, as human beings, the more those people will refuse to remain under your control. The more limits you impose, the more rebellion you create.

I may not like what you choose to wear. I also may not choose to wear what you do. But I respect and will even defend your right to wear it, your right to be who you are, and express that in whatever you say, think, feel, believe, and yes, what you wear.

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