And more importantly, should laws be generated to outlaw it? I just can't get worked up over this. Criminalizing flag-burning seems like such a stretch. Mockery yes, but sending the long arm of the law is a bit much. If you really just have to burn a flag, please go ahead. Really. Go ahead and get it out of your system.
When I think of flag-burners I think of the semi-adolescent offspring of the American upper-middle class who populate our system of higher education. They try so hard to shock their parents with fresh tatoos, piercings, and socially unacceptable boyfriends that in the end there's no shock left. What's left is that which defines "tiresome." Kind of like Boy George. Oh sure, at some time in the distant past he was new and bold. Now, he's as fresh as dinosaur bones and as blissfully unaware. So, if you want to burn a flag go ahead and don't let the irony stop you.
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