[crdrost]

I mean, to put it bluntly, yes.

You might not be disgusted, that is your right. It is their right to be disgusted.

If you're looking for an argument why one should be disgusted, one cannot be forthcoming. I cannot give you a very persuasive argument why you should be sympathetic to the personal circumstances that the homeless find themselves in. That sort of sympathy is kinda just its own purpose or its own end; if you lack it then there is very little I can tell you that would definitively convince you of its merit. Like I can BS with fallacies all the day long about how this sort of empathy was important to our species in premodern times and continues to be important in modern times, but the fallacy will remain that simply because that disposition exists in a collective historical interest, that does not mean it is in your particular individual interest.

[SilasX]

You're saying it's impossible to believe in helping the homeless while also believing there exist restaurants they shouldn't be in in their current state?

Because that feels like a false dichotomy.

Do you also think that if someone has the right to view pornography, they have the right to do it everywhere?

Do you think that if violent child molester deserves a right to a job, that should include the right to working at a day care center? And if someone thinks that's not a job they should get, they must lack empathy?

Those feel like unwarranted inferences, intended more for emotional appeal than constructive engagement.

[crdrost]

I never would say something is impossible to believe unless it were a logical contradiction, and even then I wouldn't be 100% sure in saying it. People believe all sorts of things.

I’m just saying that people have a right to be disgusted by the store’s reasoning. I did not say anything that could be construed as supporting violent child molesters and the fact that you think I did says much more about you than me.

Your comment is bluster in search of a fight. I don’t have one to give you. You were just wrong. Tomorrow’s another day.