(July 28, 2024 at 8:08 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Suppose I were to wear a Star Trek t-shirt into an establishment. Could the counter person deny me service because he was a Star Wars fan? What about wearing a ‘Cats Rule, Dogs Drool’ button, and the clerk happened to hate cats?
That's a false equivalence fallacy surely?
Quote:Where does it stop? They don’t like my hat or my shoes or my earrings, so they get to deny me service?That seems like a slippery slope fallacy to me, I'd certainly need to see some compelling objective evidence that a business refusing service to someone for expressing hate speech on their premises, would result in the banning of the trivialities you suggest.
Quote:‘If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought that we hate.’ - Oliver Wendell HolmesNo one has denied their right to think whatever they want, (is that even possible?) So I don't see how this right has been violated here? No one has even denied those people's right to express those thoughts publicly either.
Boru
This site, like all other forums, has rules about what can and cannot be said, and those who break those rules can and are refused the service it provides, yes? I must say don't see how this is any different?
