Tony Atkinson
2 min readDec 30, 2022

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And once again, the law is being laid down by people who insist on talking and thinking as if 'good' and 'bad'. 'good' and 'evil' are objective realities instead of subjective choices. Need I remind you that Adolf Hitler believed that killing Jews was a good thing to do, and that thousands if not millions of Germans (not to mention perople in other countries) heartily agreed with him?

Fact, there is no 'good' and 'evil' in nature. despite all fairy-tale, fictional and even nature documentary efforts to make them so, Great White sharks are not evil, meerkats are not little angels living in perfect families and dolphins only rescue struggling swimmers when biting them in half might lead to unpleasant consequences! Nature isn't about nice and nasty, it's about who gets eaten and who doesn't. Which is why lions will very much prefer an old, lame zebra who's about to drop dead anyway, or a lost baby antelope, to a full-grown, healthy, bull rhinoceros or giraffe who is quite capable of breaking every bone in a lions' body without raising a sweat.

Among humans, good is defined as anything you like that the other guy doesn't, and evil as anything you don't like that the other guy does.

So knock it off with the 'my beliefs are better because they're newer/older or kinder/harder than yours' nonsense. I'm a Socialist. an atheist and I really don't give a damn what colour, gender, faith and sexual variation you are as long as you don't hurt anyone and leave kids out of it! But those are my subjective beliefs and I would change them at once if someone could present me with a hard, scientifically-verifiable, factual reason why one of them was incorrect.

That leaves us with this - a business operator has the right to refuse service to anyone on any grounds they choose. Why? Because providing a commercial service to private customers is entirely voluntary. There is no statutory obligation to provide such a service - you're in the business because you chose to be, and how you do business and with whom is up to you providing the service or commodity you supply is legal and that you keep to the terms of any contract you enter into. Public service is different, as there is a statutory requirement and obligation to provide such services to whoever is entitled to them. Thus unless a contract was formally entered into and then broken for a non-valid reason, neither the baker nor the restaurant owner has a case to answer.

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Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson

Written by Tony Atkinson

Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, walker of paths less travelled by. Writer of fanfiction. Player of games. argonaut57@gmail.com

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