Auggie wrote on Oct 7
th, 2017 at 10:26pm:
Ok but where do you draw the line?
What are the comfort and cultural expectations of a society of individuals in Australia?
And why should anyone feel 'confronted by a woman covering her face?
How long's a piece of string? Social values are always in flux in one direction or the other, sometimes becoming conservative and formal, and at other times loosening up to be more relaxed and liberal, but despite this ebb and flow some staples remain unchanged as the bedrock of our Judaeo-Christian heritage.
Regardless of the times, anti-social behaviour is anathema to the good order and cohesion of a community, and so a full-face covering has the public view the wearer as untrustworthy, anti-social, unreliable, deceitful, exclusionary, not a team player, hostile to associating with her fellow citizens, does not want to be identified, etc etc. In other words, someone who is a foreign entity to the degree she does not have our best interests at heart.