I've seen more boobs on German television during the daytime than I've ever seen on television in America. If you count beaches next to cities, then I have seen quite a few casually nude people walking around, actually. Walking around in inner cities isn't the only metric to go by.
Obviously there are good reasons to wear clothes, and you are right that I should have chosen a word that isn't stupidity reversed. Perhaps I should have said" nudity isn't superawfulsinsinsin that harms children and topples empires".
If I weren't looking for an example where my beliefs are at odds with the people around me, and that I thought were done better elsewhere, homosexuality in the Arabic world would be a great example. But more apropros to my main point would be comparing America's stance on homosexuality with, say, Spain's.
Today's post, Archimedes's Chronophone was originally published on March 23, 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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