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    Default Re: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others shot at congressional softball pract

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    2. I think publicly used businesses should not be able to suppress my right to free speech. (This is in response to an alt-right person kicked out of a movie theater.) Your property rights shouldn't trample my right to free speech.

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    He replied back that if gays and blacks have to be served, alt-right people shouldn't be discriminated against. I told him blackness and gayness are arbitrary values to discriminate on. Your political opinion is something you choose to have and is therefore not arbitrary to discriminate on. He said he simply disagrees and wouldn't elaborate.
    You can't necessarily choose what you believe any more than your sexual orientation (or lack thereof), though you can choose (as far as your self-discipline goes) not to express either. At some point in the not-too-distant future, I can only assume that it will be possible to change traits like skin colour through gene therapy, such that you can choose your skin colour (light, dark, blue, orange - whatever).
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    Default Re: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others shot at congressional softball pract

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    You can't necessarily choose what you believe any more than your sexual orientation (or lack thereof), though you can choose (as far as your self-discipline goes) not to express either. At some point in the not-too-distant future, I can only assume that it will be possible to change traits like skin colour through gene therapy, such that you can choose your skin colour (light, dark, blue, orange - whatever).
    You start with the eyes, I guess. A garish full-body coloring would be offensive to younger generations who go in for intricate self-decoration through tattooing.
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