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[Michael Phelps]

Originally Posted by tstew

So what happens if some evil group arises who are almost universally clean-shaven. Do we reverse our "standard" on this issue and mandate that everyone must have a full beard in order to distinguish themselves?

There is a pretty sizable global group of people who are so overwhelmingly bald that they are referred to on almost every continent as "skinheads". I would wager that their baldness is a much more universal symbol than facial hair was for hippies. Their baldness is a much more significant break from the norm than facial hair is (in that a greater percentage of men all through history had facial hair than are completely bald). Do we need to make a similar stand on people being completely bald so people can distinguish them.

In my opinion, the issue of facial hair did not even apply to every subset of society in America. There are communities where facial hair was never anything more than a dignified thing. It honestly makes as much sense to me as going to rural America and saying that there should be a standard against wearing blue or red because at a certain place and time it symbolized allegiance to a street gang. Once again as ridiculous as that sounds, much more importance was placed by the street gang in their color than by the hippies in their facial hair.

Tstew, this just makes WAYYYYYYYYYY too much sense to be taken seriously on this thread!

And, besides, as Mark has informed us, the beard prohibition applies only to the white brethren.