Isn't the argument about flag burning .....?

Question

easily solved by making all flags out of a flame resistant material like those used for baby clothing?

HEY FOLKS!!!!

I understand the issue is not about the material of the flag. You can't legislate what people THINK, but I was talking about curtailing the ACTION of it.

And I think these people that want to "burn people at the stake" are more ideologically dangerous than the flag burners themselves.

Answer 1

I am more offended by the scores of made-in-China plastic American flags I've seen littering the roadsides since 9/11 than I am by the four people who reportedly burned flags at demonstrations last year. All those people bought all those flags and flapped them off of their cars until they were faded and tattered and finally fell off in a ditch somewhere, to be covered by broken glass and motor oil and poison oak.

At least the act of burning the flag necessarily implies that the flag is worth something, otherwise the gesture would be meaningless.

Leaving it carelessly in a ditch while railing against those who would set it deliberately alight strikes me as paradoxical.

Answer 2

That's a useless simple solution.

First you can't make fabric 100% "fire resistant" and light & flexible at the same time. A big flag would weight the same a fire fighter uniform does.

Second the material they used in the past to make fireproof clothing was ASBESTOS (Yes! one of the most powerfull carcinogenic substances in the world).

Lastly no clothing is 100% fire-proof, it's just "flame-retardant" that mean that eventually it will catch fire or it will be destroyed and if an acelerant like gasoline is used then the "flame-retardant" property will be lost even faster.

But even if you could invent a "fire-proof" flag, that wont prevent people from destroing them by any other means like acids ot sharp objects.

Answer 3

Here is the dilemma:

Any flag worth protecting would not have laws banning it's being burned.

Any flag with such laws is not worth protecting.

Much as I love America, I'll have to tolerate the poor taste others exercise when they burn the flag. Perhaps the appropriate response is to burn something they value in returne (i.e., the Quran in the case of Islamofascists, a tree in the case of green party fanatics, etc...)

Answer 4

I've been confused by the whole flag-burning thing. When a flag is old and worn and not fit to be flown, is it or is it not burned? How is that not disrespecting it?

Answer 5

No, that wouldn't be the answer, since the proper way of disposing of an old and worn flag is to burn it with an accompanying ceremony.

Answer 6

Flag-burning is a red herring.While we argue this emotionally, our leaders do their damage.As long as we're arguing about this ,we're leaving them alone.Wise up whatever side of the issue your on.

Answer 7

Not really -- because it's not about the material -- you can burn the cloth without getting people angry.

People just object to the message, and feel that it's acceptable to outlaw any message that they don't like.

Which pretty much defeats any claim they have of respecting American values.

Answer 8

no, because the flag burners would make thier own.

I have no interest in flag burning or flag burners, but I wouldn't want this right taken away. Flag burning should remain legal.

Answer 9

No- the argument about flag burning isn't just about how easily the flag can be set ablaze, but about the blatant and deliberate disrespect (and the freedom our Constitution gives Americans to show their malcontent) involved in the action of defiling a beloved symbol of our American heritage.

Answer 10

no because the people who burn flags can make thir own and it be a watse of money