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I'm betting on leggings at this point.

I am fine if you wear leggings if you are fine with me staring as you pass by. That is the only way I can reconcile my freedom loving self with my monkey self.

You don’t love freedom as in liberty; you love freedom as in lack of consequence.

To put it another way; if you really loved freedom, you wouldn’t be “granting” freedom to wear leggings in return for our own to call you a creep.

I think you misunderstand. People are free to wear leggings. However, he is also free to shame them.

He’s granting them the “freedom” from shame, and in return they won’t shame him by calling him a creep. If he has to become a creep, he won’t change himself he’ll try to change others by calling them names too.

Honestly I believe this is the core of woke/anti woke culture wars. Either side wants it their way, albeit that leads to conflict. Both sides need to compromise and accept the costs of eachother’s world views. That is the consequence the previous commenter missed. It costs and it should cost on both sides. There can be no freedom in 0 degrees of freedom.

Bro that is a super messed up stand point.

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