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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Message-ID: <9212282312.AA09549@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:12:02 -0800
- Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- From: Andy Freeman <andy@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Queens controversy yet again
- In-Reply-To: <POLITICS%92122813193136@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU>
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- >> advocated "restricting the ability of gays to live and work where they
- >> please". I've merely said that no owner is obligated to provide it to
- >> them. (I'd like to have a Ferrari. Is the local Ferrari dealership
- >> "restricting" my ability to have one by refusing to give one to me for
- >> the price I can afford?)
- >
- >You'd better throw that analogy away before it explodes on you. If the
- >local Ferrari dealership refuses to sell you one because you're a _____
- >(fill in the blank), even though you have the money in your pocket, they
- >_are_ restricting your ability to own one.
-
- No, they aren't. They're merely refusing to sell one to me.
-
- A friend of mine wants to have sex, but Madonna hasn't answered his
- letters. Is she restricting his ability to have sex? Another person
- I know can't get anyone s\he knows to sleep with him/her. Who is
- restricting her\his "right to have sex with a consenting adult"?
-
- >If the local circus refuses to give you a job as a juggler because you
- >can't juggle, you've got no complaint.
-
- The Ferrari dealer thinks that its biz depends on controlling the
- "quality" of Ferrari drivers. The circus thinks that its biz depends
- on controlling the quality of its jugglers. What's the huge difference
- here?
-
- -andy
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