On the pajamas controversy: "do not wear pajamas to go out" is freedom of belief

"Pajamas should not wear pajamas to go out." This is before the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the city government's request to residents. This caused widespread controversy. On the one hand, wearing pajamas does not accord with international manners, but there are voices that if the government controls pajamas, the freedom of the community will be reduced.

The report said that Shanghai people always wear pajamas to the streets of the habit. Alley, the market; supermarkets, the streets; and even the famous commercial street in Nanjing is also uncommon. Woman wearing colorful pajamas, foot one pair of fairly fine leather shoes, went to the alley mouth to buy a bag of salt, or wore out the trash ...... full hair volume which is seen as a typical picture of Shanghai culture well. However, in the modern civilization, it is a very uncivilized bad habit to admit it or not.

Since it is bad habits, it should be undisputed to give up. Public managers at the time of the World Expo asked citizens to "wear pajamas can not go out," but it is also very normal - stolen that this is a modest civilized control, is some evolution of management ethics, not the so-called "public rights restrictions ". "Constraints" are appearances and methods, and care and warning are "connotations". In the long run, they benefit from urban civilization and social morality. Of course, I hope after the World Expo, moderate civilized control that "no sleepwear to go out" can be continued.

Civilization is a state, but also a state of mind and development, and the existence of civilization is naturally attached with corresponding regulations and restrictions. As saying that "wearing pajamas can not go out" hurt social freedom - this logic is actually very funny. There is no absolute freedom, no one lives in a vacuum, there are legal hanging, under the constraints of rules and regulations, there are moral boundaries and civilized norms in the field of ideology, our demeanor must abide by the rules and discipline to grasp the "sense of proportion" . If "freedom" can rely on the reins, rate is, do not say wearing pajamas go out, even streaking is not surprising, but the problem is that we probably can not accept the streets are streaking.

Some people say that developed countries in the West, streaking is free, the streets are full of beautiful bikini, wearing a pajamas out what to count. This kind of thinking looks like "righteousness", in fact, simply change the concept of stealing. I do not know whether foreign countries really are filled with "three-point" style, but folk customs are rooted in culture and tradition. It may be common for American women to wear the three-point street service, which does not mean that Chinese women can do it - and step back , Bikini is a kind of dress, after all, it does not mean " underwear ", if the bikini is equal to underwear, swimming pool swimming we probably do not have to put on the swimming trunks, wearing underwear into the water on the line, why in the single?

So, "freedom" is actually two concepts. One is laissez-faire and unrestrained freedom, with a red light on. The other is freedom of faith - modest restraint of selfish interests and desires and ensuring civilizations and social order. The last thing we need to stick to is the freedom to believe. In fact, the pajamas are wearing privacy, why must wear pajamas into public places? Do not wear pajamas to go out very difficult to do? In the final analysis, it is still indifferent to the "rules" of civilization, spitting on it and there is no essential difference between running red lights. Can not accept the "tube pajamas", only shows that the fear of civilization and order has not yet formed, this is worth to be vigilant.