On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 19:44:44 -0500, you wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:20:39AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:First of all, stating one perhaps should have the right to wear whatever
T-shirt you want in a mall
The better way to frame the question: May a private property owner legally exclude people from it? Seems to me the answer should be, as a general rule, yes.
-Declan
Black people? Members of the Armed Forces? School teachers? Government employees? NRA members? Attorneys? (Well, OK, screw them, regardless.)
A property owner has every right to exclude black people, soldiers, teachers, etc.
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But let's cut to the chase. Assume that all private grocery store owners want to exclude people from their stores. Now assume that 100% of them agree that effective Tuesday, only those people who have a receipt for a $100 or more donation to George W Bush (or Hillary Clinton, whatever) may enter their property to shop for groceries.
Their right? Why not?
Yes, of course it is their "right."
But these silly "lifeboat ethics" debates were tiresome more than 30 years ago, argued in person. Typing answers to them is even more tiresome.
Read some of the sources. Few of you social democrats here have done so.
Which is OK, as it's your life. But you don't belong on this list if you have not.
--Tim May
"That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau
