Re: Is Andreas Pour a Leftist?

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On February 4, 2004 19:02, dep wrote:
> just as you are free to boycott businesses whose policies are at
> variance with your views, surely businesses should be free to eschew
> the custom of customers with whom they disagree.

choosing not to grant a company your patronage over their ethics is rather=
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different than a company refusing to sell to or serve you because of your=20
beliefs, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political affiliations, etc. the=20
civil rights movement in the middle of the last century and the struggle fo=
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women's suffrage (to name just two examples) explored these issues in great=
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detail. you would do well to revisit the events of those periods.

your examples of not paying for what you consume as being an example of a=20
belief system that serves as a basis for companies to refuse you service ar=
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completely bogus. when you take a cab, rent a room or get health treatment=
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you are agreeing to an exchange of goods/services. to illegally renig on su=
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an _agreement_ is not the same as being Muslim, being gay, disagreeing with=
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government officials or having dark skin. conflating legal agreements with=
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basic human rights is outlandish.


(much of this thread disinterrests me, but when people from the strongest=20
nation in the world, which just happens to border on my own country, start=
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deviating into fascist "idealism", i get a bit concerned.)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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