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Flags. Americans are obsessed with the American flag.
I was asked this while traveling in another country. I didn't have a good answer. FWIW, I don't own any clothing with any flags on them.
Wearing depictions if the flag is against flag code anyway. Not a legal standard, but if someone actually cared for real, they wouldn't use it as decoration.
Code is for the government. The people should be free to celebrate the freedom it's meant to represent.
Sure, but if they really had the respect for it they pretend to have, they wouldn't be wearing it.
A piece of fabric is not worthy of respect, the values it's meant to represent are. Disrespecting the flag against it's own code is one of the greatest statements of that freedom
Yes, but the people that wear the flag are generally the same ones that want to make burning it in protest illegal. The hypocrisy of wanting to force respect for the flag yet not respecting it yourself is what I am against.
I'm firmly in the camp of both burning and wearing it, so
You probably shouldn't do those at the same time.