bendog
Diamond Member
The majority and the minority always have rights in conflict. Did they not teach you that? And just because I feel that speed limits are unfair doesn't mean I can ignore them and get away with it. Your morality is yours, our morality is ours. When you are in the marketplace, ours, society's, wins. In church yours will likely, but not always, prevail. Got it?So, we're back to majority rules on matters of personal conscience. Did you intend to make a circular argument?
I guess really the conceit of the position, the idea we forfeit individual rights when in 'the marketplace'.
Well, it does illustrate the tension in rights. Another's decision to speed in their car, or pollute into a stream that abuts my land, or even to not purchase healthcare insurance and potentially enter an emergency room to suck off other's health insurance .... all have safety of economic detriments to others.
While I don't like fundy christolamists, I don't see how their intolerance has any safety or economic dangers to those whom they act uncivilly.
It does become a bit different if the NFL chooses to pull a superbowl or Apple decides to expand in another state, though