Maybe my word choice is imperfect, granted, and "respect" isn't the ideal term.
I teach economics. I am pretty comfortable with the notion that a profit-making business doesn't "owe" me anything but their best profit-making offerings. Gotcha there.
I'm not trying to call on the government to force a company to do anything they don't want to do. And I'm not suggesting that your "all-sushi" place has any obligation to offer stuff they don't want to offer.
I do, also, believe in the use of market power. It's fair game for people, as a subset of the marketplace, to express their views - even in an organized way. I don't picket out in front of Subway (my example above) for the lack of falafel, I just don't eat there hardly at all. I vote with my wallet, and I occasionally let them know that I have done so, in the hopes that it might influence their own best profit-making decisions on their offerings. Nothing more subversive than that.
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Originally Posted by CU Tiger
To me the second statement kind of cements your status as a douche nozzle to me.
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I can handle that.