Comment Re:Open your own theater! (Score 1) 327
> But theaters are privately owned businesses. If they don't want to admit children to certain movies, then that is their business.
What if they don't want to admit blacks or jews or gays? Is that just their business?
Perhaps there is a racial minority which has a higher incidence of committing violent crime-- is it then okay to deny members of that group access to a movie because it might make them 'more violent'?
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I'm a programmer. I have no desire to open my own theater, run my own restaurant, or operate my own bus line. I just don't want my children to have to sit at the back of the bus or use seperate drinking fountains. Discrimination is not okay. People should be judged not by the date of their birth but by the content of their soul. A huge burden of proof falls on someone who wants to discriminate to demonstrate a clear and present danger to society if they don't discriminate.
What if they don't want to admit blacks or jews or gays? Is that just their business?
Perhaps there is a racial minority which has a higher incidence of committing violent crime-- is it then okay to deny members of that group access to a movie because it might make them 'more violent'?
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I'm a programmer. I have no desire to open my own theater, run my own restaurant, or operate my own bus line. I just don't want my children to have to sit at the back of the bus or use seperate drinking fountains. Discrimination is not okay. People should be judged not by the date of their birth but by the content of their soul. A huge burden of proof falls on someone who wants to discriminate to demonstrate a clear and present danger to society if they don't discriminate.
