10-08-2006, 11:46 PM
Well, let's see: Starbucks offers two things. One of them they put on a menu and put a price next to, and when your order it and pay that amount the "barista" makes it and hands it to you, fully formed.
But they also offer the individual parts of that thing as separate entities that you may purchase separately. They don't spell it out word for word, but any individual with a 4th grade education can look at the ingredients list of the fully formed product and the ingredients list of the other various offerings, and can figure out how much it costs to put the product together in a different way.
Starbucks is happy to sell it to you either way.
According to herbiesyufy, I am OBLIGATED to take the fully formed product simply because it is on the menu that way. According to herbiesyufy, I am not at all allowed to mix the other products together and come up with the same thing, because in his world that would be wrong.
Moreover, herbiesyufy tells us that he and he alone is the judge of where the line is drawn between what you may put together and still be "moral" and what you may not put together without crossing the line into "immoral".
Oh--and then he calls the manual process by a blatantly racist name. Apparently, that's moral in his world. By using the blatantly racist reference, he has not crossed the line into immoral or unethical.
But they also offer the individual parts of that thing as separate entities that you may purchase separately. They don't spell it out word for word, but any individual with a 4th grade education can look at the ingredients list of the fully formed product and the ingredients list of the other various offerings, and can figure out how much it costs to put the product together in a different way.
Starbucks is happy to sell it to you either way.
According to herbiesyufy, I am OBLIGATED to take the fully formed product simply because it is on the menu that way. According to herbiesyufy, I am not at all allowed to mix the other products together and come up with the same thing, because in his world that would be wrong.
Moreover, herbiesyufy tells us that he and he alone is the judge of where the line is drawn between what you may put together and still be "moral" and what you may not put together without crossing the line into "immoral".
Oh--and then he calls the manual process by a blatantly racist name. Apparently, that's moral in his world. By using the blatantly racist reference, he has not crossed the line into immoral or unethical.