Etiquette



DP Etiquette

First rule: Don't be a jackass.

Other rules: Do not attack or insult people you disagree with. Engage with facts, logic and beliefs. Out of respect for others, please provide some sources for the facts and truths you rely on if you are asked for that. If emotion is getting out of hand, get it back in hand. To limit dehumanizing people, don't call people or whole groups of people disrespectful names, e.g., stupid, dumb or liar. Insulting people is counterproductive to rational discussion. Insult makes people angry and defensive. All points of view are welcome, right, center, left and elsewhere. Just disagree, but don't be belligerent or reject inconvenient facts, truths or defensible reasoning.

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Regarding the SCOTUS decision on employee-paid birth control…



Personally, I think the SCOTUS made the right decision yesterday, July 8th.  Their ruling:

Employers who are morally against paying for birth control should not be obliged to do so, as previously mandated under the Affordable Care Act.

However, and philosophically related, I do think that bakers should NOT be allowed to discriminate against the LGBTQ community by refusing to sell their wedding cake products or other goods to them.  If they are IN THE BUSINESS of a product, they are obliged to sell it to whomever wishes to purchase it, regardless of sexual orientation.

These two scenarios are different (enough) to me.  One involves terminating what some people consider “life.”  The other is pure discrimination against a faction of the populace with whom they philosophically disagree, and use their product as a sort of “weapon.”

Argue with me. :)

And thanks for posting and recommending.

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