Hm... I think the issue here depends on exactly which country you're in. In the US, individual rights are supposed to be utterly paramount. Free speech, and whatnot. Given that system, it should be fine to burn flags. However, would that include the 'right' to burn a flag as a gesture of racial hatred? Like if some anti-Semite burned an Israeli flag during a neo-nazi rally. That's not a 'right' I'd like to see protected.

I'm in a country where people are far less uptight about these 'absolute' freedoms - for example, nobody's worried that our national anthem is "God Defend New Zealand" - so a non-flag-burninatory law wouldn't be such a big deal here.

Hachifusa, please don't say things like you did in the post you deleted. Disagreeing with someone's opinion is no reason to go after them personally