Hi Jan,
In recent years in many lands a beard or long hair on a man attracts immediate notice and may, in the minds of the majority, classify such a person undesirably with extremists or as rebels against society.
I wonder when the Tower will grow up and see the obvious, whereas the "majority" do not paint others "undesirable" or "extremists" because they have a beard. JWs can't turn on TV or pick up a newspaper without seeing government officials, business executives, and other respected men wearing beards. The No Beard policy of the Tower is nothing more than another smoke screen to see who's foolish enough to follow the blind fossils of Brooklyn. But then again, the entire religion seems based on that.