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Which Is More Important? The Right to Discriminate, or Freedom from Discrimination?

What's More Important - the "Right" to Discriminate, or Freedom From Discrimination?


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you just heard me say it not a criminal act....why do you dodge , and play off what i said?.....glen you disappoint!

since it is not a criminal act, the government has no authority to act on discrimination.

laws are formed to protect rights, not the feelings of people.

Correct and Civil Rights are being protected instead of your feelings of prejudice.
 
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No kidding, but we can prevent people from being shunned from doing everyday tasks because someone doesn't like them.

No. You can't. Not while still having any semblance of free society.
 
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It's nice to think we have a right to property...but when it comes down to it, can you name a single right - ANY single right - that the government cannot legally take away if it felt the need to do so?

And while you're chewing on that one, can you name any time in American history when speech was more free than today?

if you as a person, commits a crime or health and safety, they can, if they take a right for no reason then they are in violation of the law....do you support that glen?
 
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Correct and Civil Rights are being protected instead of your feelings of prejudice.

civil rights are civil privileges they are not rights,

governments cannot create a natural right..which right to property is.

my feelings of prejudice?....is it about me now?
 
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And while you're chewing on that one, can you name any time in American history when speech was more free than today?

sure, back in the past, if you were my employee, and you started..sh*t with me.....i would tell you shut the fvck up and get out and dont come back.

today you would go to government to punish me, and get money out of me!
 
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civil rights are civil privileges they are not rights,

governments cannot create a natural right..which right to property is.

my feelings of prejudice?....is it about me now?

Um, no Civil rights are rights.
 
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sure, back in the past, if you were my employee, and you started..sh*t with me.....i would tell you shut the fvck up and get out and dont come back.

today you would go to government to punish me, and get money out of me!

Um, no, pick a year - any year - and tell me when your freedom of speech, your ability to protest, to speak out for what you thought was right...was greater than it is right now.
 
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if you as a person, commits a crime or health and safety, they can, if they take a right for no reason then they are in violation of the law....do you support that glen?

I'm talking about how even without you having committed any crime, and you've posed no risks to others' health or safety...there is not a single right that the government cannot find a way to legally take away from you.

And if you think about it, this is true not only here in America, but all over the world (unless you can find an island or deserted oil platform where you can make your own nation).
 
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Um, no Civil rights are rights.


sorry no, you don't have a natural right to be served my me....that's illogical

as stated before..nothing can be a right it it lays a cost or burden on another citizen...... that is why food and water, cannot be a right.
 
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I'm talking about how even without you having committed any crime, and you've posed no risks to others' health or safety...there is not a single right that the government cannot find a way to legally take away from you.

And if you think about it, this is true not only here in America, but all over the world (unless you can find an island or deserted oil platform where you can make your own nation).

i know the government uses injustice..i think we all know that......which is what they are going in these cases.

which is why the founders sought a republican form of government not a democratic one.....which is tyranny, and the left wants.
 
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Oh, right, I see. You didn't go into business to sell your (general you) products for a profit, but to feel good about yourself denying me that bottle of water because of my attributes. Thanks for explaining. It gives the motto the pursuit of happiness new meaning:roll:

Exactly. People get into business to make themselves feel good and to better their lives. The amount of profits one makes is just one factor in this.

I'm not talking about horse trading. I'm talking about doing a normal business transaction.

All transactions work on the same principle.
 
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Yes. There is most definitely a lesson to be learned in that movie. These white wealthy men felt it was there right to treat people like property. People are not property and should not be treated as such. What exactly is your point?

No. That's not the lesson. You cannot own another person. That's true, but you do, always, own yourself. You are your own property. The rest of your property is an extension of you. You own your labor. I can't force you to trade your labor to me for any reason. Do you think I should be able to?
 
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Um, no Civil rights are rights.

The original meaning of the term did in fact refer to rights, but under the current meaning of the term, it does not.
 
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Um, no, pick a year - any year - and tell me when your freedom of speech, your ability to protest, to speak out for what you thought was right...was greater than it is right now.

i already told you.....

its 1858, you work for me, and i tell you to go do something, and you give me lip.........i tell you shut the fvck up and get out dont come back......what are you going to do about it?.....nothing....so i exercised free of speech to a max degree.

today........ if i told you that, you would run to a federal agency, and complain, and i would be investigated by government, and paid fines to government, and you would sue me for a million bucks and claim i hurt you emotionally...thru the freedom of speech in 1858 is more than 2014.
 
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sorry no, you don't have a natural right to be served my me....that's illogical

as stated before..nothing can be a right it it lays a cost or burden on another citizen...... that is why food and water, cannot be a right.


No, your right to discriminate does not trump my right to buy food and water.
 
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Exactly. People get into business to make themselves feel good and to better their lives. The amount of profits one makes is just one factor in.

I think it's great if one wants to better themselves. What does that have to do with denying someone the right to buy a bottle of water in your store because you don't like my attributes?
 
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So voting cannot be a right since it costs the taxpayers money in order to hold an election.

voting under the founders was not a right, its a privilege, because the founders knew the poor, and their [always is the poor] would use their vote, to take money and property from those who have it......it you paid taxes and had property, you could vote because your contributing to society.
 
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Um, no, pick a year - any year - and tell me when your freedom of speech, your ability to protest, to speak out for what you thought was right...was greater than it is right now.

I am old enough to remember that a baker was able to refuse to participate in an activity to which he did not approve without it becoming major headlines, the fodder of endless discussion, and a catalyst for angry protesters demanding justice.

I am old enough to remember when a businessman could express support for right to life or traditional marriage or a belief that men and women are physically and tempermentally different without some angry mob descending upon him demanding that he be punished for his views.

I can remember when a reality show personality could express his religious beliefs when asked without organized powers demanding that he lose his position and livelihood. I can remember when people had a sense of decency and fair play and would not demand retribution be heaped on a television show host when it was revealed she had used a politically correct word many years before.

I can remember when people with name recognition did not have to fear IRS audits or other 'unusual' investigations when they spoke out in protest of certain government officials or policies.

I am old enough to remember when people of widely differing points of view were invited, welcomed, and treated with great respect on college campuses, but that was when students were taught to think critically and evaluate different points of view rather than being indoctrinated with one 'right' permissible point of view that is all that is allowed to be on campus.

There is a difference between an assumed right to speak out, and being subjected to organized emotional, physical, and/or economic retribution if you do.
 
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No, your right to discriminate does not trump my right to buy food and water.

what?.......i said you have no right to food and water.......there is no right in the constitution for food and water, ...because to do so would mean, it would have to be provided to you at the cost of someone else.
 
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Is your HOUSE open to the PUBLIC? No. Is your BUSINESS open to the PUBLIC? Except for private clubs, YES. It might be a person's private property, but a person's business is open to the public, while that person's house is private. Do you see the difference? Yes, you do.

Sure. "Open to the public" does not mean absolutely anyone who wants to be there can be there any time they like (unless that's the way the owner of the place wants it). You understand this, yes?

How many people here have lived in a town where there was a business with a whites-only entrance? As far as I can tell, only me. And that town did have a whites-only private club. I really don't want to see America to go back to days like that.

I'm pretty sure my town had such a thing, but not in my lifetime. We had plenty of racists. I was one of them when I was a kid. Know what changed my mind? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't being forced to hang around a black guy by law.
 
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No. That's not the lesson. You cannot own another person. That's true, but you do, always, own yourself. You are your own property. The rest of your property is an extension of you. You own your labor. I can't force you to trade your labor to me for any reason. Do you think I should be able to?

Right, and one of the points of the movie is that the slave master felt the slaves were their property and they owned that labor. Please stop comparing a slave to someone selling items.
 
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i know the government uses injustice..i think we all know that......which is what they are going in these cases.

which is why the founders sought a republican form of government not a democratic one.....which is tyranny, and the left wants.

If there's one thing I've found, it's that every single person who cries out that America is a tyranny or this or that American political party wants a tyranny...has precisely zero clue as to what a tyranny is.

And no, in the cases to which I refer, the government's not "using injustice" - sometimes it's war, and sometimes it's business as usual, and sometimes it's doing the bidding of the mega-corporations...but you, sir, have rights only until the USA (or whatever nation you happen to be in) decides it's in the best interest of the nation to take those rights away. Sorry, guy, but that's reality.
 
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Right, and one of the points of the movie is that the slave master felt the slaves were their property and they owned that labor. Please stop comparing a slave to someone selling items.

Its sad that some people can't tell the difference. Its what happens with someone only deals in absolutes or as if this whole discussion was a binary choice. They equate absurd things.
 
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