Some people think that the only time they're being treated fairly is when they're receiving special treatment.
Yep.
This might be hard for you to understand, but by forcing a person to serve another person, you are more or less inflicting slavery.
As the Government grows, and makes more and more of itself the "right" thing, individual freedom is lost.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for meand there was no one left to speak for me.
-John
It's true that we lose individual freedom when government steps into cases like this. Pretty much all government involves loss of individual freedom. In return, we gain protection and opportunity. The absolute most freedom one can have is when there is no government and no other people around. There is not, however, all that much protection and opportunity. While one alone in the wilderness can be anything he or she chooses to be, that had better be something that produces food and shelter, and doesn't encounter anything beyond one person's ability to defeat. Maximum freedom, very little protection or opportunity. This is why people institute governments, to willingly trade individual freedom for protection and opportunity.
Philosophically I am against government stepping in and telling a business owner how he must run his business. Pragmatically, I recognize intrusions like this as the lesser evil. We're supposed to be the world's melting pot, all cultures melded into one American culture, individuals united in their individualism, not a bunch of special interest groups who patronize (or can patronize) only their own kind's establishments. We can't be individuals if we allow others to group us into discrete groups and define our treatment by that group identity.
And in the end, if a business owner is fair and reasonable to all customers, and guided by pure capitalism, this will not affect him in the slightest.
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