I want to make something very clear to people who don't seem to understand the difference between public and private work. (1)
I keep seeing people say that anyone who provides a service to the public is a public worker. No, they are not public workers. They are private enterprises. They are not taxpayer funded, and live or die based on their business decisions.
The vast majority of private enterprises do not offer life or death services like medicine or rescue. They are bakers, repairmen, manicurists, etc. Your ability to live another day does not rest on your local pizzeria making you a large pepperoni with stuffed crust.
A public service is one used by the taxpayer. It cannot discriminate about who it serves. It serves you, the taxpayer. This also goes for life or death services, which would violate both professional and ethical laws for turning someone away based on race, gender, sexuality, etc.
The private shop does not have a "duty" to serve the public. The public service does. If the state forces the private enterprise to serve the public, it ceases being a private enterprise, and become state run entity.
So let's say you run a private hat making business out of your home. What too many are advocating for is someone coming into your home and demanding you make them a hat that that says something heinous on it. It doesn't matter that its your private property, you have to serve.
Forcing private citizens to serve the public at the end of a figurative (and sometimes very real) gun isn't anything like a free country. The only time we force citizenry to serve the public with a skill or labor is when that citizen is serving time in prison.
And even sometimes that prisoner gets paid for their labor.
What people are doing when they demand a baker bake a cake despite his moral reservations is asking the state to come in and turn private citizens into unwilling state workers.
That's not freedom. That's slavery.
That's not freedom. That's slavery.
Before you demand that others serve you despite their reservations, stop and consider that what you're doing is opening the door for someone to demand something from you, and you being forced to obey.
