Quote:Businesses though are privately owned public space.  They're generally open to everyone.  Or at least assumed to be.

 

Quote:So the argument is dependence on public service requires equal access?

 

If that's the case we have no personal property rights at all, no one does, since everyone outside of the mountain man in Montana on some level is using public service. That's a pretty dangerous leap to make.

The answer above is the one that matters. Your home is not the same as your business. You can do anything you want in your home (for the most part) and no one will bat an eye. Operating a business is a different story. They are making money to some extent off of public services. It's a perfectly reasonable argument actually. 

 

I think trying to equate business and private homes is a poor analogy. There are very clear differences between the two both in form and function. 

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