Fickle friends

That word "normality" comes up for scrutiny once again with the arrest and release of the people, including a woman from the UK who stripped off some of their clothes when up a mountain in Malaysia. The mountain had symbolic religious cogitation and the locals were outraged.

Apparently it is becoming the rage amongst some to expose themselves when the fancy takes them and one has to ask "what's wrong with that" ?
Seen from the protagonists point of view their actions are part of the freedoms won by various, largely western societies who are forever pushing back the the "acceptance blanket" which society has constructed over the decades to find formal norms to describe what is acceptable to the bulk of society.
The term bulk or majority has always meant the greatest number and the term greatest number has meant that the lessor number has drawn the shorter stick. It seems axiomatic that if more people want something, then it is more acceptable that the majority should have their way.
That of course was before the concept of "human rights" placed all humans on an equal footing and numbers don't count. The 'individual' has rights and as long as the laws of a country are not broken then they should be free to do what ever comes into their head.
Of course human rights naturally contest the concept of laws which seek to limit the individuals actions and so we have a contest within society at large, society being prodded to relinquish their position by activists on all fronts.
Is it fair that the "norms " which the bulk of society have grown up accepting should so easily be challenged by the individual ?
Is the questioning of 'everything' a good thing. Does the speed which the Internet broadcast these incursions into what we have established as good or bad, before we know it, made our normality old fashioned and out of kilter with the trendier sections of our respective societies.
We in the UK, always coy about "insisting" would rather accept to fudge the issue and work on the drip drip assimilation of change than face up to standards which are set.
The Italians, certainly the Religious societies are more traditional in their surety of what is right and what is wrong and in some ways, because one can never define properly what is right and what is wrong they have at least some sort of basis for defining when a woman wishes to take her top off, is she is within her rights to do so. Religion would say no and we must be sure in our secular world that we understand, there are no other boundaries other than the religious ones since taste and conformity are fickle friends !!