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- From: brown@pollux (Daniel Brown)
- Subject: Re: Sad Day for Liberty
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.154741.22683@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: University of Georgia
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:47:41 GMT
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- In article <74792@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5254a@prism.gatech.EDU (William Dennis Herrin) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.173552.5238@athena.cs.uga.edu> brown@pollux (Daniel Brown) writes:
- >>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))
-
- Trade must be by mutual agreement only. No one has the right to force another
- person to engage in trade of any kind with him. The number of people served
- by the business is completely irrelevant.
-
- --
- Daniel W. Brown (brown@pollux.cs.uga.edu)
-
- "If you weren't 50 feet tall, I'd punch you in the bosom!"
- --Larry Potter on _Get a Life!_
-