The human right to wear underwear to work
I've been accused of being "negative" about human rights commissions.
So I'm tempted to say that I support this new ruling, from the human rights commission in the state of Kerala, in India:
Nearly 200 staff at a Hindu temple in southern India have won the right to wear underwear to work.
The human rights commission in Kerala state has ordered Sabarimala temple to withdraw a dress code that barred staff from wearing underwear.
Let it be known that I'm pro-underwear, especially at work. But, again, I've got to dissent. I just don't think it's the place of a government -- not in Canada, not in India -- to meddle in such petty disagreements. It's not a crime to ban underwear at work. If staff don't like it, they can get a job at a pro-underwear temple.
To me, property rights and contract law mean that you've got the right to be foolish, to be a dissenter, to do what nobody else in the country thinks you ought to be able to do, as long as you're not hurting anyone. I'd rather live in a country with an unabridgeable right to be a harmless nut than in a country with a legally entrenched "human right" to wear underwear to work.

