Freedom and the Burka or full veil in a Moral Maze

[RWStanding]

Freedom and the Burka or full veil in a Moral Maze
Freedom is in two sorts, the practical freedom of a child in growing up and learning how to live an independent life in the world. And the practical freedom that technology provides, enabling us to live in a wider world, in more technological complexity. Even adults today struggle with modern technology. Pragmatism is a value.
For morality, freedom for the individual, is about what we do with that freedom and its purpose. We as adults are already free in the mechanical, practical, sense. We cannot simply be free, in moral terms.
<>
The burka and wearing it is a pragmatic, rather than a simple value. It is the purpose for its use that is the value. Modesty may be advanced as a reason.
In a well known radio programme a motley group of people may be asked about the virtue of the burka. The question is absurd without knowing where each individual is coming from. There is no absolute right or wrong existing in its own right, and an appeal to God is empty rhetoric. What virtue is 'God' recommending? If there is no virtue then it is arbitrary will. Or 'God' is simply an expression for whatever is fundamental in existence.
For anarchistic society, for which morality is barely more than keeping the peace, the answer is simple. Individuals and families will take their own course, for their own varied causes. But with no essential view to benefitting society, or in obedience to social authority.
Those who are within and in accord with authoritarian society, will do as that authority ordains. Usually traditional moral law, or traditional personal authority. Effectively that authority is their god. They may advance the idea of modesty as a reason why it is the law, but that modesty would be imposed by the law. The law determines it is for the sake of modesty, and the law must be believed and obeyed.
There is however a benefit from law 'written in stone' in maintaining social order, but that is a necessity for all forms of society.
For the altruist, modesty is one of many values, and it and these are the reason for practical action. In this instance it might be so to counter the less than perfect morality exhibited by men. On the other hand a full veil may simply stimulate their curiosity. And there are other considerations, with identity utterly obscured, including gender - a serious considerations for law and order. Altruists can have no authoritarian religion, other than in defining it as Jesus or Buddha demonstrating virtue rather than ordaining it. For altruism, there is no specific answer for all time as to how modesty is to be exhibited. It is a subject for free-debate - which is not the same as free-speech. There is a good case for the burka to be banned in public, as in France.
<>
Any existing state or society will contain people of all moral sorts. But society cannot do otherwise than have its overall Ethic. It is not Brexit but the fundamental ethic that has to be decided before anything else. Is the law of the UK, altruist, or something else.

[TSBU]