Not unexpectedly, I saw several people pointing out how a private business can do whatever it wants with its merchandise, can promote it however it wants, and that therefore, the outrage over this was silly. While I agree that a private business can sell whatever it wants, I also think that people can shop wherever they want.
There's one other situation in which I've heard the argument about sellers having the right to decide what they sell, and that's in relation to pharmacies in the States that don't want to sell birth control or Plan B. They have the right to decide what they sell, right? They have the right to sell only products that mesh with their morality. This however is TOTAL BULLSHIT. First off I'm like 99% sure that you have to get a license to have a pharmacy and had out prescriptions. A license from the STATE. So technically the pharmacy HAS to follow certain standards. Public standards...not personal ones. Otherwise they could be selling Oxycontin to whoever wanted some.
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Date: 2009-04-13 02:56 pm (UTC)There's one other situation in which I've heard the argument about sellers having the right to decide what they sell, and that's in relation to pharmacies in the States that don't want to sell birth control or Plan B. They have the right to decide what they sell, right? They have the right to sell only products that mesh with their morality. This however is TOTAL BULLSHIT. First off I'm like 99% sure that you have to get a license to have a pharmacy and had out prescriptions. A license from the STATE. So technically the pharmacy HAS to follow certain standards. Public standards...not personal ones. Otherwise they could be selling Oxycontin to whoever wanted some.