{"id":22839,"date":"2014-07-17T05:37:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=22839"},"modified":"2014-10-24T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T04:41:28","slug":"using-the-state-to-impose-social-views-onto-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/using-the-state-to-impose-social-views-onto-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Using The State To Impose Social Views Onto Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LewRockwell.com<\/a> | In reality it is the agents of the State and its enforcers who are the actual criminals of society. And it is also necessary to shine a light on those who use the State\u2019s \u201canti-discrimination\u201d laws as a means to harass and financially extort from someone who has expressed an \u201coffensive\u201d i.e. politically incorrect point of view or has declared one\u2019s right to exercise freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. This is another area in which minarchists should rethink their acceptance of a State with monopoly power.<\/p>\n

For instance, we can look at the case of the same-sex couple who felt offended when a photographer didn\u2019t want to photograph their wedding (or \u201ccommitment ceremony\u201d in this case). The couple could have merely respected the photographer\u2019s right to not associate with or do work for them and then move on to find another photographer who would work for them. There probably are dozens of professional photographers in every region of the country who would do the work, even in the southern redneck areas, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

Now, I think that the couple were so \u201coffended\u201d by the photographer because hyper-sensitivity has become the norm in America. The government schools emphasize this now in which teasing is now called \u201cbullying,\u201d and \u201czero tolerance\u201d is just a euphemism for thought control. In a truly moral world, of course the photographer has a right to refuse to do business with someone, and based on whatever reasons she has \u2014 it\u2019s her business.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that there are many people now who are more offended by someone not wanting to associate with a member of a \u201cprotected class\u201d of people, than they are offended by people forcing others to associate with them. Just as there are many people now who are more offended by a child pointing his finger like a gun saying \u201cbang, bang\u201d than those who are offended by teachers calling the police to arrest the child. In other words, mere thoughts and points of view, and mere verbal expressions, seem to offend more than the actual uncivilized behavior and acts of aggression being employed by the State at the wish of those who are emotionally intolerant and hyper-sensitive.<\/p>\n

But morally, people do not have the right to force someone to associate with them or do business with them. If someone rejects you, then you move on to someone else \u2014 that\u2019s the civilized, moral and libertarian thing to do. But using the State and its enforcers to compel an involuntary association from someone is criminal, in my view. In that same-sex commitment ceremony case, while the photographer is exercising her right of freedom of thought, association and voluntary contract, the couple are not only the intolerant ones, but they are in fact acting criminally in their financial extortion and harassment of the photographer.<\/p>\n

And I wonder just how much the couple felt it important to sue the photographer out of genuine principle (or spite, revenge, or pettiness, depending on how you look at it), or did they see the situation as an opportunity \u2014 in our sue-happy society \u2014 to use the courts to \u201cget something for nothing\u201d? Read Entire Article<\/a>
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LewRockwell.com | In reality it is the agents of the State and its enforcers who are the actual criminals of society. And it is also necessary to shine a light on those who use the State\u2019s \u201canti-discrimination\u201d laws as a means to harass and financially extort from someone who has expressed an \u201coffensive\u201d i.e. politically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[1457,1077],"class_list":["post-22839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-anti-discrimination","tag-zero-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}