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  The Right to Discriminate

  by RubyTuesday in

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  every one discriminates, and everyone is discriminated against, at some time.

  discrimination is using your judgment to make decisions about whom you will associate or reward with use of your time and property.

  all people discriminate in their personal associations constantly -- you discriminate in whom you choose as your friends, lovers and business associates.

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  RubyTuesday

  We all cut and paste...ya dope!

  Thanks Valis....was emailed the part i posted.Now I get to see it all.

  Very well put..IMHO
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  The Right to Discriminate

  by RubyTuesday in

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  every one discriminates, and everyone is discriminated against, at some time.

  discrimination is using your judgment to make decisions about whom you will associate or reward with use of your time and property.

  all people discriminate in their personal associations constantly -- you discriminate in whom you choose as your friends, lovers and business associates.

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  Every one discriminates, and everyone is discriminated against, at some time. Discrimination is using your judgment to make decisions about whom you will associate or reward with use of your time and property. All people discriminate in their personal associations constantly -- you discriminate in whom you choose as your friends, lovers and business associates. You discriminate in whom you allow your children to associate and date. You discriminate in whom you allow into your home, with whom you choose to eat lunch or talk to. You discriminate between different businesses and entertainments, and you discriminate between those persons whom you admire and those whom you judge to be unworthy of your time and resources. Discrimination is a constant part of life in the exercise of the human mind in making judgments about people and controlling your actions. To discriminate is to judge, to judge is to reason and make value judgments about; right and wrong, better or worse, profitable or wasteful, pleasurable or unpleasant, moral or immoral.
  Private people and institutions have the right to favor their own group, which may be based on nationality, ethnicity, religion, similar values, culture, sexual behavior, political views or any other reason, as long as they don't impose their preferences on others or deny others their right to choose their own associations -- which is precisely what the United States and all other nation-states do. People discriminate constantly in their daily lives and in business and clubs, people certainly discriminate in favor of their relatives and friends in business, often giving jobs to old friends, college buddies, relatives, neighbors or someone who has common values with whom they can identify, its their property, their business and they have the right to share that property with anyone they want and provide benefits to whomever they want.
  The right to discriminate is an important social control in a free society. If you don't discriminate in your interactions with people you have no moral control over yourself, your family, friendships, community or business. It is that very fact that motivates the state to deny individual's their right to discriminate, to take away from the individual moral control.
  This does not include discriminating for immoral and ignorant reasons because of human characteristics such as race or ethnicity, though individuals have the inherent right to discriminate for any reason. Making the wrong choice leads to isolating oneself from the mainstream of a free society. People fear that individual discrimination will led to racial segregation, but racial segregation was a political-social system imposed by the state using force to coerce all to maintain it. In a free society, without the artificial national borders imposed by nation-states, there is no way that people around the world would choose to segregate one another by race, nor would any groups be able to impose segregation. Those groups of individuals who do choose to separate themselves for whatever reason have every right to do so, and such fringe groups will have no effect on the rights of others.

  Voting is discrimination, people discriminate between different candidates. When the police investigate and arrest a suspect and when the jury convicts a person it is discrimination. Imprisoning thieves and murderers is not yet considered to be a politically incorrect form of discrimination, but knowing the way things are headed, you never know. Would you hire convicted felons? Would you allow just anyone into your home, including criminals and child molesters? Would you not discriminate in who would be your child's baby sitter, allowing anyone who might come in off the streets? The question is what kind of discrimination is acceptable and which is not. Hopefully people will have the common sense not to discriminate based on the color of somebody's skin or where their ancestors came from and instead will discriminate based on the content of their character and how they treat other people. The only intolerable form of discrimination is that which violates other individual?s rights, i.e.; politically enforced discrimination.
  To discriminate in one's private associations doesn't take anything away from anyone else. By controlling your own behavior, your own choice to associate or not associate, simply withdrawing your presence and your property from those with whom you wish not to associate is a fundamental exercise of individual freedom, those who don't have the right to do that are slaves, they are the property of everyone else, they are property of the commons and are forced to associate with anyone and everyone.
  When you suppress one individual right you must inevitably suppress other rights in order to support that tyranny and deny other channels expression for the right which is targeted for suppression. In a society that denies people the right to discriminate there is no freedom of association. Do you really want to live in a society where everyone in it is forced together?
  Freedom of association is a prerequisite for the establishment of a free society, self government, free enterprise, private property and any measure of individual autonomy. People who are not free to associate are slaves. A free society and politically imposed discrimination or denial of the right of individuals to discriminate are mutually exclusive, to be free, people must enjoy the right to control their own property, businesses and to associate freely, if your not free to associate with people of your choice, then your not free, period.
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  Bush Bash, Anti-gay marrige.

  by SC_Guy in

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  i think bush is trying to screw this country one more time before he's voted out of office....

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  Gooooooooooo......Bush!!!!
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  I've finally found out my BIG PROBLEM with women.....

  by logansrun in

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  damn.

  damn me to hell.

  i just now, not ten minutes ago, had a totally cool conversation with this sweet italian girl at starbucks.

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  Cracks me up that alot of advice you are getting from the men are way off!! Ask them if they are in a good lasting relationship...I know for a fact some are not.Bottom line is every woman is different,some shy, some outgoing...ect.ect.We are not cookie cutter women.What may work with one may not work with another.

  Biggest turn off is a know it all man with no sense of humor....(someone here that is giving you alot of bad advice...beware!!)

  I think from reading your post that you already have an excellent foundation...great sense of humor..you can laugh at yourself...and your cute...its just a matter of time before you are scooped upJust be yourself.
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  "The Passion of The Christ" -- a review

  by MegaDude in

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  the passion of the christ

  sun feb 22, 7:00 pm et

  todd mccarthy

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  This just cracks me up!!! Poor Mel!!

  Top Story: Mel Gibson's Father Calls Holocaust "Fictional"
  As if Mel Gibson needed any more controversy over his upcoming religious epic The Passion of the Christ, now his father is adding his two cents. In an interview with the radio program Speak Your Piece!, airing Monday on the small New York-based Talkline Communications Network, Hutton Gibson stated he thinks the Holocaust was mostly "fiction." According to The Associated Press, which published excerpts of the transcript released by the network, Hutton Gibson told host Steve Feuerstein, "It's all--maybe not all fiction--but most of it is," when asked about the Holocaust. "They claimed that there were 6.2 million (Jews) in Poland before the war and after the war there were 200,000, therefore he (Hitler) must have killed 6 million of them. They simply got up and left. They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney and Los Angeles," he added. Hutton Gibson also suggested Jews want to take over the world, adding, "It's all about control. They're after one world religion and one world government." When asked in media interviews whether he shares his father's views, Mel Gibson, who has said repeatedly in the media that he is not anti-Semitic, says only that he loves his father and will not speak against him. Alan Nierob, a spokesman for Mel Gibson, declined to comment.
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  I've finally found out my BIG PROBLEM with women.....

  by logansrun in

  1. social
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  damn.

  damn me to hell.

  i just now, not ten minutes ago, had a totally cool conversation with this sweet italian girl at starbucks.

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  RubyTuesday

  Thanks..

  No...don't have printed cards...she'll think your a player.Write down your number on a napkin or something( you could write a funny note...like "cute guy at coffee shop"below your name.
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  I've finally found out my BIG PROBLEM with women.....

  by logansrun in

  1. social
  2. relationships

  damn.

  damn me to hell.

  i just now, not ten minutes ago, had a totally cool conversation with this sweet italian girl at starbucks.

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  Forget asking for her number....she's heard that a million times before ( and who wants rejection) Write down your number and tell her that you would really like to continue the conversation and if she wants to call you(Now days women are leery about giving out their numbers to strangers..give her the control). Meanwhile write down some interesting questions to ask her when/if she calls.Make sure you don't just talk about yourself...what a turn off!BTW...I would find it more of a turn on if the guy ended the conversation first...makes you think he has a life.
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  What's your status....relationship wise?

  by Maverick in

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  one of the down sides of the web is not knowing the various posters status; married, involved, looking, and lost...suspect a lot of those here!

  my status is complicated...mostly by me!

  i have a couple of admirers that would like to lock me down but i keep dancing around the whole issue.

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  RubyTuesday

  No kids(and will never have them..guess my biological is broken or I was never issued one..my jeep is my baby)

  Been dating a generous, giving,and loyal "pretty boy"....oh yeah..life is great!!
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  Another great picture posting Thread.

  by Stefanie in

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  here is mine and my hubby's.

  i might take it down latter so my crazy ex dont find it.

  feel free to post pics of you, your kids, your pets plants anything will be grrreat!

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  javascript:OpenPicture('93328')
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  Ask one dumb question, ask one serious question....Seriously.......lol

  by LyinEyes in

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  ok, i will be the first to make a fool of myself........ i am naive in many matters , i will admit that, i am also gullable.

  since i started working at the bar,,,,,,,,,i hear all kinds of things.....most of the time i am sure someone is just pulling my leg and think they surely dont believe what they just said.

  a guy tonite asked me for some nabs.........what in the world is that........???

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  RubyTuesday

  Heres an example of what your class might be about.(Now you can be the smartest person in class)

  http://www.abcboard.state.al.us/rvponpr.html

  Click on your state .

  .http://www.abcclass.com/links.html#state