mrsrandallboggs:arrogant-bastard-conservative:lemwon4:recall-all-republicans:Republican Rand
mrsrandallboggs: arrogant-bastard-conservative: lemwon4: recall-all-republicans: Republican Rand Paul He would lose in a general election so I’m not worried. Source on the photo’s claim? I think he does believe this. It’s because it’s your own private business and most people wouldn’t do it anyway because they want the money. He isn’t saying he would suggest denying someone service based on skin color or anything else, or do it himself. This formal sentence and consequence cited above is based on the human right to trade or not trade with any private person as one likes/chooses. This principle of reason, like the others, applies to everyone, regardless of their branch of stupidity. The selective example above is deliberately taken out to scandalise and thus negate the simple principle of equal rights for everyone. And of course in practice this special example will seldomly be the case: Because 1) most people are, in concrete when it comes to dealing with other real people, not that racist. 2) The possibility to gain some money instead of being a racist purist does the most of the rest.With regard to reason one distinction has to be made:- Private business, private decision, individual liberty to deal or not to deal and trade with anybody.- Public institutions: Everyone has to be dealt with. With the same rights and without any regard to their background, be it religious, political (!), ethnic, etc. Both these rules of reason are a logically necessary result of the equality before the law principle. The fact that Rand Paul doesn’t back down, away from this principle because it could be and is shamelessly used by unreflected—or dishonest—political opponents is a big idealistic (not politically opportunist) plus for him, in the matter of his character and substantially in the case for reason against privilegism. This task of reason in general means that we all have this right, to choose with whom we want to trade or non-commercially interchange. And I like this principle of logic, against all odds of empirical anit-rationality, very much. -- source link
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