His win is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s decision in a pivotal LGBTQ+ rights case.

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    Take something you strongly disagree with. Let’s say a certain political party and their agenda. Republicans, Democrats, Nazis, a radical independent, doesn’t matter what, just one you disagree with.

    You’ve decided to provide a private service as an individual. Let’s say, event planning.

    A political party approaches you to host their biggest rally yet. On enquiring, what it’s about, you find out it’s the one you disagree with.

    Should you be made to? Are you denying rights by declining your services to them, or are you exercising your own by choosing to stand by your beliefs?

    Your beliefs will of course outrage some people that have opposing ones, but they are yours and they should be protected no matter what they are or how wild or somber they are. It is only when you actively start harming people or directly denying human rights is when it becomes an issue… But you host events, you don’t control water, shelter, justice, health, or food to societies. So unless that’s somehow happening—and boy would that have been a regulatory fuck up—you have the freedom to not host events for things that go against what you believe, and we protect that even if people disagree with them.

    You can’t make someone do things against their beliefs, just as you wouldn’t want to be made to do things against your own. That’s called hypocrisy and double standards. We respect this by disagreeing with someone’s beliefs, but we don’t strip them from people and force our own on them, just because we disagree.

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      You can’t make someone do things against their beliefs, just as you wouldn’t want to be made to do things against your own.

      In the US, the civil rights legislation forces racists to serve black people and that is great.

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      There is a fundamental difference between immutable traits, such as race, gender, sexuality, and physical ability, and political beliefs. So your comparison to “something you strongly disagree with” is not fitting analogy.

      Your beliefs will of course outrage some people that have opposing ones, but they are yours and they should be protected no matter what they are or how wild or somber they are.

      We aren’t talking about “beliefs”. We’re talking about actions. Discrimination is an action.

      It is only when you actively start harming people or directly denying human rights is when it becomes an issue…

      And denying people goods and services based on who they are is harming them. So it is an issue.

      You can’t make someone do things against their beliefs, just as you wouldn’t want to be made to do things against your own.

      We can and we do, all the time. That’s part of living in society.

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        The thing’s you say are very authoritarian. The disregard for individual thoughts and freedoms is honestly scary. You can’t even differentiate private venture with public service. I suspect you discriminate against others all of the time, but it’s fine since it’s coming from you and your side of things, never questioning if you’re the bad person or not.

        It slowly gets worse and worse each time you type. That last part is just flat out disgusting to say.

        The Handmaiden’s Tale didn’t get 8.4 on iMDB because people can’t wait for that future enough.

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            Heh. Thank you. My point and case for anti-libertarian rests on that response perfectly.

            And I appreciate you taking your time to state you’re wasting your time. Best your words and outlook rest here than elsewhere. We’re trying to progress as a species so, in a way, this is unintentionally helping.

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                You’ve been addressed and deemed anti-liberal as what you’ve said is in direct opposition of the protection of people’s freedoms and beliefs. You in fact went on to nonchalantly say that’s fine and that you can take people’s beliefs from them and replace them, which is literally within definition of authoritatianism—the polar opposite of liberalism.

                Are you simple?

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                  You’ve been addressed and deemed anti-liberal as what you’ve said is in direct opposition of the protection of people’s freedoms and beliefs.

                  More idiotic accusations, no substance.

                  You in fact went on to nonchalantly say that’s fine and that you can take people’s beliefs from them and replace them

                  What? I’ve said nothing of the sort.

                  Stop arguing with people you have imagined.

                  Yawn.

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                    You know your text is still there, right? Like it’s still totally readable and still totally there.

                    You can’t make someone do things against their beliefs, just as you wouldn’t want to be made to do things against your own.

                    We can and we do, all the time. That’s part of living in society.

                    Yeah, okay. I’ll just go tear down the prayer room at my work and tell everyone they have to conduct their workday the way I do from now on. It’s fine. Some darq person on the internet said we totally do this all the time and it’s way easier than respecting their inconvenient beliefs; which are void now anyway since we’re reconditioning them to be more compatible with our ideal society. Also, all veterinarians have to provide euthanasia services. Oh, and a bar can’t refuse entry to someone exercising their right to bare arms. And flatearther reconditioning camps. Actually, just all sorts of reconditioning camps. We’ll take away that individual freedom, wash those beliefs out, and get them just how we like 'em. By the end of this, they’ll have to take photographs of whatever we fucking tell 'em!

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      You’re right, but that’s an unpopular take in this hive mind.

      Lemmy folk can’t handle reality that contradicts their ideals.

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        This feels like it should be Libertarian 101. Thought the communities were left here, but apparently they just say that to feel good.