Credit Cards, Liberal Indignation and Anti-Gay Bigotry
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A self-standing comment I left at a (very liberal) gay blogger's site over her outrage and disgust regarding supposedly "oppressive" policies by credit card companies:
Here's a radical idea: don't do business with them. These are, after all, voluntary private contracts among competent consenting adults.Such are the incoherent reductio ad absurdums that inevitably result when one believes in sexual substantive due process but not economic substantive due process.
Isn't "my outrage and disgust over it entitles me to prevent those who are not outraged and disgusted over it from doing it, despite the fact that I am in no way harmed by others doing it, apart from my outrage and disgust" the modus operandi of the anti-gay bigots? Why would you possibly want to borrow a page from their playbook?
Quite embarrassing worldview, IMHO.
Related Posts (on one page):
- Kip's Law Sighting: Nudge and the Fallacy of "Soft Paternalism"
- Credit Cards, Liberal Indignation and Anti-Gay Bigotry
- Lucent Gives Rotary Phone Renters the Finger
- Paternalism and Your Money -- Part Two
- Paternalism and Your Money -- Part One
Posted by Kip on
4 December 2007
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