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To: Irontank
Yes...freedom of association...private property rights and the basic natural right to be stupid...after all...who else but an idiot would, right off the bat, reduce his potential pool of buyers by deciding he's not going to sell to someone based on some arbitrary characteristic?

Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer.

126 posted on 08/11/2005 3:07:06 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (There will be no bad talk or loud talk in this place. CB Stubblefield.)
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To: hispanarepublicana

"Yes...freedom of association...private property rights and the basic natural right to be stupid...after all...who else but an idiot would, right off the bat, reduce his potential pool of buyers by deciding he's not going to sell to someone based on some arbitrary characteristic?"

"Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer."

Or, most importantly of all, they should not expect access to the courts to enforce their contracts. As in, when the family walks out and says "We are not paying for any of this", the company has no recourse to the law. But the family would have access to the police and the law to protect them against efforts at coercive private enforcement.

Take away the government, and you take away the courts. Take away the courts, and contracts become absolutely meaningless, and the whole capitalist economy dries up and blows away - POOF!


132 posted on 08/11/2005 3:18:47 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: hispanarepublicana

"Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer."

I could buy into that. So long as they became exempt from paying taxes. Kinda circular logic, huh.


193 posted on 08/12/2005 6:15:04 AM PDT by CSM ( If the government has taken your money, it has fulfilled its Social Security promises. (dufekin))
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To: hispanarepublicana
Yes...freedom of association...private property rights and the basic natural right to be stupid...after all...who else but an idiot would, right off the bat, reduce his potential pool of buyers by deciding he's not going to sell to someone based on some arbitrary characteristic?

Well, then these same private property businesses shouldn't expect public benefit of police, fire, street, or sewer.

One does not necessarily follow from the other. That they engage in private racial discrimination is not the comparison - what this manager appears to have done - which is not provide services contracted for - would be a much clearer comparison.

247 posted on 08/12/2005 12:58:23 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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