(April 17, 2015 at 4:32 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:Equal treatment means the government should force a baker to bake a cake that reads, "God hate fags" lest the homophobe not be served.(April 17, 2015 at 1:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: My problem is with 2. Why? Because except in extreme circumstances individual self determination trumps societal equality. My problem with 2 is that my rights and your rights are now being trampled just to prevent butthurt.
Actually, enforcing equal treatment in the public sphere is not in order to "prevent butthurt".
A society that allows bigotry in the public realm is inherently more unstable, and this is borne out by history, including our own.
Asserting as you have that it is about "preventing butthurt", or that equal treatment laws are attempts to impose social views, is not only inaccurate, but also evidence of a shallow thought-process.
Are you ready for that?
