Victor wrote:
> Jay wrote:
>> Victor wrote:
>>> Patrick wrote:
>>>> I think that the Americans are the most repressed country in the
world. The
>>>> land of the free, free to conform.
>>>
>>>I don't think so. When I first visited the USA and saw all the NSNSNS
>>>signs, I said to myself: 'Wow, there must be so many barefooters here,
>>>they even had to put up signs to stop them.'
>>
>> I think it's not so much that there are so many
>> but that the people who are anti-barefoot are
>> very strange and like to post signs, etc..
>
>However, if there were no barefoot people around, the anti-barefoot ones
>would have no reason to post such signs etc.
That's the weird part.
I really don't think there's all that many
barefooters running around. A few, for sure.
But my sense is that the NS3 signs are very
dispro****tionate to whatever problems or
litigation that may arise from injury.
Like you're really going to get in trouble
by being barefoot in a McDonald's? Doubt it.
There's no glass, nothing heavy. It's bull****.
Probably most barefooters by far
would never sue some store or restaurant
or anyone if a cut happened to happen.
It's totally beyond reason, imo.
I think anti-barefooters are just tripped out.
Something makes them go nuts.
>>>In my country barefooting is virtually non-existant.
>>
>> As it turns out, in my experience,
>> in the States being barefoot is not really
>> all too popular. Fear however appears to be
>> somewhat rampant. Fear of being sued, fear of
>> losing civil rights, fear of fear.
>
>Don't you think the anti-barefoot signs started long before the epoch
>of lawsuits and total fear?
Yes and no.
I'm not sure what anti-barefooters are afraid of.
If it isn't fear
then it's plain old discrimination
using fear of litigation as an excuse.
Sometimes fear of health is used,
which has been proven to be a bogus claim
in terms of any laws, statutes, etc..
I've been getting refused service
and kicked out of establishments ever since
I began to go barefoot, back in the late 60s.
Maybe anti-barefooters are just haters.
Another beers sounds good however.
-cheers!
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