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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Message-ID: <9212292023.AA12654@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 12:23:41 -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%92122912053147@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU>
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- >> 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"?
- >
- >Welcome to another episode of Andy's Asinine Examples. Will someone
- >please explain to Andy that the inability to find a consenting adult
- >does not restrict one's right to have sex with a consenting adult?
-
- Really? It doesn't? And to think that inability to find a Ferrari
- dealer willing to meet my terms restricted my right to have a Ferrari.
-
- >(Hmm. Andy seems to have trouble recognizing a difference between
- >transactions that involve having sex and those that involve buying a
- >car. Remind me never to buy a car from Andy.)
-
- Andy has no difficulty with the idea that sex can be a commercial
- transaction, one common in the service industry. Andy doesn't see any
- good reason to distinguish services from products, especially products
- that are mostly image, like Ferraris.
-
- >> 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?
- >
- >The difference is that the circus is in the business of hiring and
- >presenting competent jugglers. The dealership is in the business of
- >selling cars to the public.
-
- Really? Its ads say "For the special person". Why can't it define
- its desired customer-base?
-
- I've no objection to forcing people to live up to their agreements.
- I'm objecting to forcing them to make agreements. If the Ferrari
- dealer says "walk in with $65k and ride out in style", I expect them
- to live up to that, but I think that they should be allowed to offer
- different terms.
-
- >If the dealer wants to sell cars one at a time from his living room,
- >he is free to restrict his clientele as he wishes. When he makes a
- >public offer he should be prepared to serve the public.
-
- Most every car is sold one at a time. Does it really matter where the
- showroom is or how big the biz is?
-
- Is a "public offer" any offer made in public, or is it an offer made
- TO the public?
-
- -andy
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