Posted on 05/08/2007 8:27:49 PM PDT by doesnt suffer fools gladly
“Don’t think so! Private business. Where’s the necessary involvment of the State. We all discriminate in one way or another. It’s not illegal. But it is for the State. No State action, no discrimination.”
1950’s. Blacks sitting at lunch counters in the South even though the owner had told them to get out. Lawsuits result. The rest is history as we say.
Those were private businesses; your first point. The state was not involved; your second point. We all discriminate..it’s not illegal; your third point - it is illegal. The Supreme Court ruled just so.
“I don’t have the “legal” right to do a lot of things. However, I consider my moral rights to be superior to flawed laws.”
Funny you should put it that way. I’d expect someone on the Daily Kos to express their right to anarchy that way, not someone on FR.
Oh, please. Anarchy?
KOS'ers don't have a clue what morals are.
Having confidence in my moral beliefs is certainly not expressing any sort of "right to anarchy", nor even a suggestion of it. If you consider your morals and moral beliefs to be of less value than (often arbitrary) government laws, then your morals are on pretty soft ground.
Those that advocate and promote anarchy have no morals.
I obey a lot of laws that I don't necessarily agree with, in part because without laws we would have anarchy. But that certainly doesn't mean that I have to subjugate my morals to those laws. Or to believe that because I must obey laws that they are automatically morally superior to my moral beliefs.
Laws are often based on keeping order, not on a sense of fairness or morality. And especially not on justice.
Indeed, it seems to me that to suggest morality is inferior to the law, is to promote the notion of the "goodness" of government. In other words, socialism.
The 14th amendment is directed to the States, not to citizens in general. But then I guess all these fellow freepers who are trying to set you straight could be wrong and you might be right.
“The 14th amendment is directed to the States, not to citizens in general. But then I guess all these fellow freepers who are trying to set you straight could be wrong and you might be right.”
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Well, perhaps I MIGHT be right. Isn’t there a sheister threatening a lawsuit over this whole episode? Perhaps I’ll need to FedEx you a cold serving of crow, not Sheryl.
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