For the Right to smile-even for passport photo

One can think of the most trivial and unlikely things when it comes to the First world countries.

A French civil servant has asked the country’s administrative court to approve people smiling in passport photos to dispel “national depression” and give the country a “morale boost”. He also suggested happier-looking passport pictures would send a positive image of France to the rest of the world.
From our Third world perspective where we are still fighting for basic rights of food and education, this sounds as the heights of absurdity.