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To: Mrs. Don-o
What this means is that you have a right to do what isn't prohibited by law. The includes the right of vendors of goods and services to decide which goods and services they will vend, and how, and when, and to whom.

But you also have to follow the law when it specifies which goods and services licensed vendors will have to vend in order to keep their licenses, right?

90 posted on 11/09/2007 10:02:23 AM PST by cryptical ("The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson)
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To: cryptical
"But you also have to follow the law when it specifies which goods and services licensed vendors will have to vend in order to keep their licenses, right?"

This is not an argument, it's a tautology. What you're saying is, "If the law say x, the law says x." Duh. That's what the whole controversy is about: should the law revoke a professional license as a punishment for ethical behavior, e.g. for refusing to distribute a substance intended to injure or kill? And the answer is: no.

Let's see if this analogy helps: say there's a blind mom and dad who have an infant with normal eyesight. Say they strongly identify with the "blind community" and all the people they admire are blind. They come to the pharmacist with a prescription for ketoconazole which they mention they want to put in their baby's eyes to destroy his sight.

They have a prescription.

Ketoconazole is legal.

They're paying for it.

Do you sell it to them?

If you don't, should you lose your license?

92 posted on 11/09/2007 10:47:40 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, ...)
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