Friday, April 3, 2015

Defending the Right To Be Stupid

I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DO, or to not do, business. This is especially true if I happen to own the business. I can close up shop anytime I want, and reopen it when the person with whom I do not want to do business has driven safely away. No shoes, no shirt, no service. If you're gay, go away. Either prove that you're a Yankee fan ,either by verbally proclaiming your fandom, demonstrating a knowledge of New York Yankees history, or by reciting their current roster, position by position, or your burrito never comes out of the oven and onto your plate. Shouldn't all private enterprise owners have the right to do or not to do? For all practical purposes, don't they? Why limit our God given right to discriminate to discrimination directed at gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender people, couples or triples? Why base the right to discriminate on some esoteric personal religious belief based on some primitive, intolerant religion? Why not base it on a basic human right, the right of free association or non-association, on entrepreneurial prerogative? Certainly discrimination of any sort should be outlawed in all public realms, as it is. After all, we all pay taxes, unless we can get away with not paying them, we are all citizens, whether in good standing or otherwise. But in the private sector, let bigotry ring, and for any business owner stupid enough to discriminate against any potential customer of any sort, let the cash register freely not ring! Every business owner has an inalienable right to destroy her or his own business. If you enter my business, and can't prove that you're a baseball fan by reciting the winner of every world series since 1903, the beer you want to buy from my store, oh non baseball fan, stays in the can, man, and you gotta get a new plan. If need be, let us enact a new constitutional amendment, as follows: "The freedom of choice being fundamental to a free enterprise society, no government, state, federal, or local, shall enact any law infringing on or prohibiting the free exercise of discrimination in any private business or private activity". Now, that'll show those do gooding bleeding heart liberals what's up, and it'll stirke a blow for the cause of freedom; the freedom to be a reprobate or self destructive idiot.

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