On Thursday, February 28, 2002, at 08:01 AM, John Young wrote: > Michael Dell's statement is a more grievous attack > on civil liberties than the original it tries to apologize > for. > > It is inappropriate for a company to engage in the > range of considerations for domestic, non-export > use of a product Dell outlines unless the company > has made those considerations publicly known, and > law substantiates the restrictions.
In a free society a person may sell to whom he wishes, or not sell, as he wishes. Claims about making "considerations publicly known" and "law substantiates the restrictions" are inconsistent with a free society. In a society not based on coercion, Dell is free to not sell to gun owners and other people they dislike...and we are free to ridicule them, launch boycotts, and try to drive them out of business. --Tim May "The great object is that every man be armed and everyone who is able may have a gun." --Patrick Henry "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton
