From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 20:28:17 MST
2002.03.21 06:58:04, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
>In fact, an argument can be made that in a libertarian society, it is
>the individual's responsibility to engage in such peer pressure in order
>to maintain a polite, peaceful and stable libertarian community. Failing
>to do so is abdicating individual responsibility and thus invites in the
>hand of the state (essentially what occured in the south in the 60s).
Unfortunately, this is very open to abuse. Take an incident like the
Columbine shootings, for example - I don't doubt that quite a lot of
businesses would want to not serve goths after that. Obviously, this is
very unwarranted. But goths are not that much a minority, at least not in
either of the places I've lived (Minneapolis, MN and Salt Lake City, UT);
definitely not enough that in a situation like that where there is a
significant public backlash against us (or any group - replace "Columbine
shootings" with "9/11" and "goths" with "Arabs", etc) for us to not starve
to death or have to depend on our more normal looking friends for survival.
(Wow, I'm arguing for some sort of government regulation! The apocalypse
must be near...)
cheshire morgan. Beer wants to be free.
-Bruce Sterling
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