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That's an utterly nonsensical argument. People aren't allowed to do whatever they want either. Less sniping, more thinking, please.


People aren't allowed to do whatever they want.

Unless the person is a corporation. In which case it becomes a cost-benefit analysis.


The message I was replying to wasn't saying that. It was taking a snipe at free marketers by [sarcastically] claiming it's OK for a corp to do whatever it wants, just like people. It was just straight up a stupid statement.

Something like your statement I wouldn't have blinked at. A libertarian I may be, but I think I could stand to see some corporate veil-piercing over this. Corporations shouldn't have the power to destroy your personal life over what amounted to a business scuffle. (The little-l in my libertarianism is because I don't believe in laissez-faire capitalism, but in something more like curated or harnessed capitalism, regulations designed to maximize the good of the market while muting the bad. This may sound self-evident when I pitch it my way, but very little regulation is actually written that way; usually the real purpose of a given regulation, as demonstrated by actions, is something else.)




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