{"id":7233,"date":"2015-04-13T06:38:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/13\/state-power-and-the-conscience-of-the-individual\/"},"modified":"2015-04-13T06:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:38:10","slug":"state-power-and-the-conscience-of-the-individual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/13\/state-power-and-the-conscience-of-the-individual\/","title":{"rendered":"State Power and the Conscience of the Individual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why shouldn&#39;t the state have and exercise the power to override the conscience of the individual?&#0160; Suppose I am in the bumper sticker and T-shirt business.&#0160; You come to my shop and order a thousand <em>Fuck Obama!<\/em> bumper stickers and a thousand<em> Hillary Sucks!<\/em> T-shirts.&#0160; I explain to you that to do as you request would be to violate my longstanding commitment to civility&#0160; and that you should take your business elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Question: Should the power of the state be used to force me to serve this particular customer?&#0160; If not, why not?&#0160; Am I not discriminating against him on the basis of his creed, which includes a commitment to the absolute right of free speech?&#0160; Am I not interfering with his exercise of this absolute right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&amp;amp;quot;Fuck Obama&amp;amp;quot; Bumper Sticker\" height=\"460\" id=\"templateimage\" name=\"mainimg\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.cpcache.com\/product\/82590343\/quotfuck_obamaquot_bumper_sticker.jpg?color=White&amp;height=460&amp;width=460&amp;qv=90\" width=\"460\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why shouldn&#39;t the state have and exercise the power to override the conscience of the individual?&#0160; Suppose I am in the bumper sticker and T-shirt business.&#0160; You come to my shop and order a thousand Fuck Obama! bumper stickers and a thousand Hillary Sucks! T-shirts.&#0160; I explain to you that to do as you request &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/13\/state-power-and-the-conscience-of-the-individual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State Power and the Conscience of the Individual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}