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- From: gt5254a@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin)
- Newsgroups: ga.general
- Subject: Re: Sad Day for Liberty
- Message-ID: <74792@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 08:52:51 GMT
- References: <74624@hydra.gatech.EDU> <k_fqwt#@dixie.com> <1992Nov13.173552.5238@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <1992Nov13.173552.5238@athena.cs.uga.edu> brown@pollux (Daniel Brown) writes:
- >In article <k_fqwt#@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >>Where DO you kids come up with that crap? You (nor your agent of force,
- >>the government) do NOT have the right to tell me what I do with my
- >>property and that includes my business. That it has been done in
- >>the past under the guise of "civil rights" makes it no less wrong.
- >>This is all a manifestation of the leftist concept that individual
- >>rights and personal property are inherently wrong and therefore must
- >>be taxed and controlled by the government. Perhaps when you enter the
- >>real world and attempt to run a business, you will have a slightly
- >>different view on the government forcing one set of citizen's beliefs
- >>on another.
- >Amen. The gov't has no right to tell you how to spend your money, and that
- >includes when you are hiring an employee.
-
- Actually, it turns out they do in a certain case which is this:
- If your 'business' serves only yourself and a few close friends, then you
- have the right to exclude anybody you please. If your business serves the
- general public, however, (and as a technicality, does some aspect of its
- business over state lines) then you do not have a right to choose which of the
- general public you do business with. (To a degree -- You can refuse to do
- business with an individual whose conduct is inappropriate (such as shirts &
- shoes rules, and the ability to eject someone who's being loud and
- obnoxious))
-
- The question then comes to 'why?" and the answer is: history. We discovered
- that you could garuntee blacks equal rights under the law, but if a large
- percentage of businesses subsequently refused to do business with them, then
- they did not, in reality, have equal rights. And if you can't see how
- large percentages of businesses refusing to do business with blacks is
- relevant to whether or not a business owner should have the right to do
- business with gays, well, oh well.
-
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