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Originally posted by Watchtower
Hello, try this version of your post:
Your question is out of context. If the government grants me the right to contract out of interacting with black people, can the government (or me) enforce that right?
What if we just call it a contractual right. Can we enforce it against bus lines, trains, planes, hotels, and similar places? Because, if so, such places wouldn't even risk providing service to blacks.
So just because you rephrase the question doesn't make the answer different. I'll just phrase the question the way I want, and answer it.
So you tell me, why can't the government mandate a right to choose who we interact with? Why would choice be bad here?
So you see, it's all just a matter of how much this free speech stuff really means to you, and how much you are willing to compromise it. Permitting free speech means that you will, on occassion, hear some things you'd prefer not to. And you can walk away, hang up, or blow a foghorn if you like, but you're still going to have to deal with the unpopular for 10 seconds or so.
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Uhm, nice try, but the list doesn't offer the black/white option. When that issue comes up, I'll be glad to tell you what I think.
However, to answer your question, instead of thinking of it as a list of people who can't call me, why not think about it as a list of people who can call me.
The phone companies have the call blocking services already, and they are presumably legal. So, is there a problem if the government mandates that phone companies offer me such a service? Because that's what they are doing, though on a level that is much less specific than the private call blocking services that are available already.
The private ones would let me block out black people.
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