(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? Where does it stop? They don’t like my hat or my shoes or my earrings, so they get to deny me service?
‘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 Holmes
Boru
Most people are in business to make money, I don't think much in the first paragraph would rise to the occassion. Holmes also said "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." So the guys with the shirts are free to wear (or say) what they want but when others feel negatively impacted they are also free to act, like not giving them a sandwich. A kind of counter protest.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
