Wonktonodi said:
sc94597 said:
Wonktonodi said:
free societies have rule of law. there are things that we don't allow, refusing to make laws supporting the right thing for fear of backlash is foolish. As is leaving places that make us uncomefortable as Aeolus451 keeps suggesting. Sometimes lines need to be drawn. The idea of, sit and wait history is on your side isn't good enough. Popular ideas beat out unpopular ideas, good has nothing to do with it.
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It is foolish to create the legal groundwork in which the same people you want to force yourself upon can force their views on you. You are subsidising the efforts of the people you oppose by creating an institution that forces one groups beliefs onto another. In a truly free society all people can live with their own separate belief systems.
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Having laws is the groundwork for any view to be forced on someone but It would be more follish not to have the legal groundwork set up to protect people for fear that bad laws might be made. Even your truely "free society" would be forcing views on people, the view that all belief systems are equall. Plus their is a big difference than beliefs and actions. Beliefs: x,y and z are sins. Actions: refusing to do business with people who do x, still doing business with y, and z.
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Laws (in liberal societies) are meant to protect people from force, not iniate it. If somebody refuses to do service with another person, they are not iniating force.
