If a murderer rolled into my restaurant, I'd call the police

by OGerry , Maine wilderness, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 06:14 (2835 days ago) @ Joe
edited by OGerry, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, 08:42

unless said murder were improbably out on parole for managing not to shiv anyone in the pokey. Then "debt paid to society," and all that. I'd smile, take his order, and be sure never to present my back.

If you believe your ethical duties and your legal duties lie in perfect confluence, then we're not going to be able to have much of a conversation here. From where I stand, a person may have a legal right to be an asshole to others without it being right or just.

If you own a restaurant, you've hung up a shingle that says you'll welcome the stranger and feed the hungry and earn your livelihood from the quality of that work. Picking and choosing who qualifies for your hospitality is a dick move betraying your very purpose for being as an ongoing project.

Again, how are we better as society if we divvy up who we treat with respect publicly based on political similarity and difference, including professional services? You really want a world in which you bring in your Audi with a Bush Cheney bumper sticker, and I, your mechanic, refuse to do the work because you support those murderous bastages? Or you're the surgeon getting ready for my third open heart bypass. You're ready to go down the established zipper line when you see I have 'I'm With Her' and a big photop smiling HRC tattooed across my chest. You insist I find another surgeon because I clearly support a murderer.

People in a healthy society would readily see such a state of affairs as pathetic and wretched, but because we're talking about Donald Trump and his minions, people go off their nut and pat themselves on the back for how woke they are (see OP). Trump winning.