What is a "snowflake"?

[Standing Wolf]

Well, you just don't want to be forced into slavery.

Slavery.

Now do one where you compare being forced to wait on a gay person to being shoved naked into a gas chamber and thrown into a mass grave, okay?

[Chris]

Slavery.

Now do one where you compare being forced to wait on a gay person to being shoved naked into a gas chamber and thrown into a mass grave, okay?

a gay person to being shoved naked into a gas chamber and thrown into a mass grave

Wild imagination. Yours, not mine.

slavery
[sley-vuh-ree, sleyv-ree]
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noun
1.
the condition of a slave; bondage.
2.
the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution.
3.
a state of subjection like that of a slave :
He was kept in slavery by drugs.
4.
severe toil; drudgery.

In short, subjugation, being forced to do work against your will.

It's a metaphor, wolf, to make a point.

[Chris]

I'd have to include people who are so sensitive to what other people might be doing in the privacy of their own homes that they want to be able to refuse to serve or sell to them, and claim to be "hurt" if the law requires them to do so.

You mean like on the ShowTime series Shameless where the neighbors, the white dude and black girlfriend who ran the neighborhood bar, ran an online porn show from their bedroom? They never refused service, and how would they even know who's watching, or care as long as they were getting paid. They didn't act hurt. No snowflakes on that show.

Okay, that was more than a little weird. Not sure how any of that applies to the discussion, but...whatever.

It was an example of what you posted. Read what you post.

[Chris]

[rcfieldz]

Most of the time, snowflake is what a weakling calls other people through the safety of their computer in an effort to look tough.

They're the people who support the FCC censoring Stephen Colbert while they complain about safe spaces; or make fun of Obama's mom jeans while claiming people should respect the current President; or say "ain't no immigrant gonna take my job" as they collect their welfare check; or attack liberal arts majors for getting degrees even though they never finished high school; or tell liberals to grow a pair as they're henpecked by their SOs; or so afraid of voting for a woman that they chose the current disaster; or claim to be rugged individualists while they keep hitting the report button.

And life is great.

[Kalkin]

Except that when you apply for and receive a license to conduct a public business, you agree to abide by the rules that come with it.

I don't believe anyone should have to apply for a license to conduct private business between willing parties. Said private business would be open to the general public, minus anyone the business owner does not want to do business, for any reason whatsoever. Of course, since I support equality, the potential customers would also have the right refrain from conducting business with said establishment, for any reason whatsoever.

You voluntarily put certain limits on how you deal with the public, among other things. In your private life, you can choose to associate or conduct business with whomever you like; in the public marketplace, you cannot.

The public marketplace is just a group of private citizens voluntarily doing business with each other. Why should those private individuals give up their right to free association?

[Kalkin]

Slavery.

Now do one where you compare being forced to wait on a gay person to being shoved naked into a gas chamber and thrown into a mass grave, okay?

Both are examples of people being forced into doing things against their will, thusly comparable. One is just more extreme than the other.

[resister]

I don't believe anyone should have to apply for a license to conduct private business between willing parties. Said private business would be open to the general public, minus anyone the business owner does not want to do business, for any reason whatsoever. Of course, since I support equality, the potential customers would also have the right refrain from conducting business with said establishment, for any reason whatsoever.

The public marketplace is just a group of private citizens voluntarily doing business with each other. Why should those private individuals give up their right to free association?

He sounds like a socialist.

[Kalkin]

He sounds like a socialist.

Certainly not a supporter of liberty.

[Dr. Who]

Wild imagination. Yours, not mine.




In short, subjugation, being forced to do work against your will.

It's a metaphor, wolf, to make a point.

You are not being subjugated by honoring a voluntarily made contract. I can't imagine how you could even justify that point of view unless one party or another attempts to change the terms of the agreement unlawfully. It is a fact of life that licensees operate within a set of rules. You can't run a restaurant and not observe the health rules. You can't operate any licensed establishment and maintain dangerous premises. If your municipality demands that you close on stat holidays, you can't stay open. You can't run a bar and sell liquor to minors. I'm not sure why this is so difficult to understand.