CDR: Re: <nettime> Rebirth of Guilds

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Sun Sep 24 19:50:58 PDT 2000


At 6:20 PM -0400 9/23/00, David Honig wrote:
>At 01:42 PM 9/23/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:
>>The failure of capitalism is the failure to recognize that human beings
>>have rights and that business is simply an expression of individual
>>rights. Rights allow one to pursue an activity until that behaviour
>>infringes anothers right to engage in their activity (in this case raising
>>their children).
>
>Having a child gives you no extra rights to control others' behavior.
>
>If you don't want to see lesbians kiss, stay out of the ballpark.
>
>[the latter a reference to two lesbians being evicted from a
>baseball game for kissing (yes, in Calif, in 2000), when mixed-sex couples
>were doing the  same.  the baseball corporation thereafter recanted, and
>gave 5K tickets to homosexual groups, thereby saving themselves a major
>lawsuit]

Ball parks are nominally private (pace your "baseball corporation" comment)/

If a venue or site or company or piece of property is 
privately-owned, then all liberty-advocating persons would certainly 
say the owners have every right to tell lesbians and queers to stay 
out.

"If you don't want to see lesbians kiss, come to PacBell Park!"


--Tim May





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