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?

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.

...

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?

...

...

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.

...

Freedom is only tested when it hurts.

With freedom comes responsibility. Decency is one of them.

-- Colin

But obligate decency at gunpoint is not worth it. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "Windows 95 is a technologically complex product that is best left alone by the government..." ---MSFT Atty B. Smith