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DonFerrari said:
Final-Fan said:

So, basically, what you are saying is that it's OK for businesses that are open to the public to discriminate against certain members of the public who want to be customers based on political boundaries.  For instance, if your neighborhood grocery store charged more to anyone who lived outside the neighborhood, with no way for them to "get a membership" other than by moving to the neighborhood. 

What if your local store said "OK, members of the PSB party have to pay twice as much"—OK?  (United for Brazil coalition, I picked one blindly from Wikipedia)

What about other forms of discrimination?  "No bread for black people"—OK?  "No bread for Jews"—OK? 

For me even though it is biggotry and moronic, it's their business and if they want to lose money doing it the government shouldn't intervene... but all customers decide to stop buying there because of it, them I have no issues.

Business must be punished and rewarded by the value they bring to their customers, not by government big heads.

Well, at least you're consistent.  Your position is still horrible, but I can respect almost any political position that is put on the marketplace of ideas honestly.  In the USA, the problem is usually with the ones who present their principles and policies dishonestly that end up tricking the public into stupid things. 

And there are some countries out there so incompetent and corrupt that even though the government should normally take care of this sort of thing, it's safer to just throw them out of meddling completely.  Your views would be more reasonable in a place like that. 

(In the USA our political process is very incompetent lately, and arguably corrupt, but the actual day-to-day government is still pretty good.) 



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