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Slartibartfast wrote: May all  individuals be non violent.

Fixed.

Headline assumes that the value can be defined objectively. 

Economics teaches us that people can gain utility from things above and beyond their intended purpose. If people like the taste of a sports drink, or like the image it conveys then it may well not be a waste of money for them if they don't care about the alleged benefits,

Equality 7-2521 wrote: horsewithteeth11 wrote: Yeah, I realized that when I started reading the actual report. I have since corrected my mistake and feel slightly less embarrassed. I'm not sure the annoying, whiny, half-thought comments I make are worthy of producing shame.

It was more shame at the fact that I didn't finish reading/skimming the actual report before posting the article. Believe me, if half-thought comments actually shamed me on here, then I'd probably be overly-sensitive. It would be like, "Oh my god! Somebody on the internet made fun of me!"

Also, I thought this was pretty cool.

The Olympics started today.

I'm glad to know a mayor is allowed to determine what restaurants his citizens are allowed to eat at within a convenient area, because he disagrees with the owner's political views.

Now that being said, I'm not the biggest fan of their food, but it's okay from time to time.

horsewithteeth11 wrote: I'm glad to know a mayor is allowed to determine what restaurants his citizens are allowed to eat at within a convenient area, because he disagrees with the owner's political views. Now that being said, I'm not the biggest fan of their food, but it's okay from time to time.

I saw that on The Daily Show! Or was it the Colbert Report?... I guess the Muppet's were also working with Chick-Fil-A.. Not anymore! This all seems like a joke.

That place closes on Sundays. These days is quite unbelievable to see that someone decides to prefer to uphold their values instead of earning a buck. I'm sure the employees in that place value that fixed day off their schedules. 

thellama73 wrote: This story is extremely upsetting to me because A) Chick-Fil-A is delicious and B) the precedent of governments banning businesses because they don't like their political views is blatantly unconstitutional and could be very, very dangerous if left unchecked.

It's utterly non upsetting to me but it does depend on how atrocious you find the comments.  Still let them do business.  I will never patronize Chik Ill Fate again.  Besides I only get a hungering for CFA sandwich on Sundays anyway.

Let's face up to this.  Dan Cathy is being a total dickweed.  They've got the money to challenge this in courts if they so desire.  A luxury many of us don't have.


Edited by Slartibartfast - July 26 2012 at 08:07

thellama73 wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: thellama73 wrote: This story is extremely upsetting to me because A) Chick-Fil-A is delicious and B) the precedent of governments banning businesses because they don't like their political views is blatantly unconstitutional and could be very, very dangerous if left unchecked. It's utterly non upsetting to me but it does depend on how atrocious you find the comments.  Still let them do business.  I will never patronize Chik Ill Fate again.  Besides I only get a hungering for CFA sandwich on Sundays anyway. No it doesn't. That's the whole point of freedom of speech. You can be as atrocious as you like without the hammer of government coming down on you. At least they have not issued a legal ban...yet. I still find the mayor's comments inappropriate though. If customers want to boycott, that's fine. I encourage that sort of activism, but government shouldn't tell businesses what they can and can't say.