"Ring of rose bushes." In fact, such was a common element in medieval fortifications, perhaps just as much as moats.

Personal privacy is sacrosanct, privacy in the workplace is not. A pilot on an 8-seater is under constant view by everyone on the plane. Why shouldn't a pilot of a larger plane have at least someone watching?

... even hundreds of people's lives are in your hands, you have no right to an expectation of privacy regarding your actions that directly affect those lives.

Racism is an ideological construct. Moron.

Actually, you may be doing the feudal masters a bit of a disservice. While the feudal serf was his master's property, the lord of the fiefdom generally treated his serfs better than the industrialists who followed. It was common for the lord to provide his serfs free health care and several times more time off than even today's corporations provide their workers. Many of the common beliefs about feudal life are misconceptions bred by the industrialists to keep their workers complacent: "You have it so much better, now that I'm in charge," essentially. If you'd like to learn more I can recommend the series of videos named "Medieval Lives" with Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame.

Okay, but a duke or a prince is the lord of his fiefdom, feudally speaking. .

Owning a business does not imbue the owner(s) with the rights of feudal lords. A keystone principle of American society is that you can't discriminate by refusing to conduct business with others based on ideological differences. A great struggle over civil rights would seem to have settled this, but some throwbacks still want to impose un-American values on others. The Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution were founded on the principles of the Enlightenment. It is high time our citizenry got enlightened, as well.

There seems to be a presumption that these characters understood the speciousness of their claims. Much of the technology sector, and much of society, consists of the clueless being led by the marginally clued, or even just the clueless that shout the loudest. Assigning responsibility in such circumstances is often a fool's errand.

The quaint old custom of drawing and quartering provided entertainment for the whole family. And heads on pikes provided such vivid decorating options.

... when there's money to be made. This is not new; look to Thomas Edison and his demonstration of the "danger" of alternating current. He electrocuted an elephant with a ghastly display of indifference to suffering, all in a disingenuous attempt to convince consumers to choose his direct current system.

... for open container laws?