David Honig writes:
At 02:37 PM 12/23/97 -0500, Colin Rafferty wrote:
You are not being coerced into anything. If you don't want to serve food to Blacks, don't open a restaurant. It's your choice.
Where do you get the right to tell others how they can make a living?
I don't have that right. However, the Supreme Court has said that the Congress has that right.
By the way, you are also not allowed to dump toxic waste in your own backyard. Are you being oppressed?
I am not allowed to place toxic waste, or noise, where it can affect others; I can ingest toxins privately and listen to whatever music I like so long as you don't detect it in your backyard.
Well, racism is hiring decisions is something that is detected in other people's backyards. That's why its illegal.
An employer-employee relationship is like a marriage or any other arrangement between adults -mutually consensual.
In a fantasy world, it is mutually consensual. It the real world, it is seldom mutual.
You prefer a shotgun or otherwise arranged marriage?
I prefer a level playing field.
Colin, do you consider yourself oppressed when someone choses not to date you? What about a rejection by someone who takes out a public advertisement in the paper?
Nope. Of course, this has nothing to do with anything.
Private behavior is private behavior, and trade is a private behavior.
Not in this country. If you don't believe me, check out Article I, Section 8 for one explicit example.
Freedom is only tested when it hurts.
With freedom comes responsibility. Decency is one of them.
But obligate decency at gunpoint is not worth it.
It's called civilization. You should try it some time. -- Colin