Democracy has nothing to do with it.

Actually, it does.

First, any form of government is formed by the citizens giving up powers to the government. In a democracy, they presumably do so willingly, and are entitled to regain some of them by being elected into positions of power. Also in democracies, government exists in part to protect the basic human rights of people, including the right to privacy. That is Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

So effectively the power to investigate your private affairs is transferred to the state, but under the restraint that the state may exercise it only if there is sufficient reason to believe that without doing so the rights of other citizens would be violated.

Second, and that’s just a footnote really, most of the working democracies in the world are based on the principle of separation of powers; that means that it’s not all government bodies that have the right to invade your privacy under extenuating circumstances, but only a restricted few.

Privacy is a big part of democracy.

There is nothing wrong with Blizzard setting their own rules just like there is nothing wrong with you refusing to accept them.

Again, that’s patently untrue. Blizzard as an entity operating in a democratic state is subject to the laws of said democracy just like any other citizen; in fact, since Blizzard is not a natural but a legal person, slightly different rules apply… and generally speaking, natural persons have more rights.

Now I’ll grant you that you probably misunderstood my post to be saying that Blizzard was acting against democratic laws. That’s not what I meant, though it may well be the case in some countries.

I meant that Blizzard is acting against democratic principles. It bothers me when a company does that just as much as when a government or individual does that.

Democracy has nothing to do with it..

Think of it that way… if somebody comes to your house and knocks on your door, you have every right to ask them who they are and frankly anything you want to know … if that person is unwilling to answer your questions he/she is free to leave.

In other words, you have no inherent right to privacy … these rights only exist in relation to government and that’s because governments are equipped with powers to arrest and imprison.

There is nothing wrong with Blizzard setting their own rules just like there is nothing wrong with you refusing to accept them.

Eh, I’m just going to avoid Blizzard’s games now, I think.

Soybeans? That’s a bad example.

First, most soybeans are not produces for human consumption. They’re produced to feed farm animals, intended for meat. So it’s not my lifestyle that would be causing the extinction of these rare animals you mention… at least not likely.

Second, the second law of thermodynamics applies to the food chain as well. Every amount of nutrients you can gain from meat requires a larger amount of nutrients to be fed to the animal you’re eating. That means meat-based diets cost more land and more water, and produces more pollution that equivalent plant-based diets.

There are plenty of studies to support that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_effects_of_meat_production is a good place to start.

First, no, this post is not about animal rights. At all. This is about my right not to be discriminated against because I don’t want to harm animals at all. Yet I am, and I don’t have the same legal basis to defend myself against that as religious people do. That is all this post is about.

Second, “No one can live without affect the live of others.”. True, but that’s not a good excuse for not trying. I could use the same argument to kill and eat other humans, but I rather doubt you’d find that reasonable.

That’s in this kind of matter the point: If i kill a animal to eat it, i robbed him his freedom and his way of live, that is a fact. But, really, it is so? My marten an the village-cats hunt the forrest-mouses, for example. No one can live without affect the live of others. I hate the forms of industrial livestock farming, this is pervers. I think, we humans eat to much meal. I dont eat much “dead animal”, and in the last jears i bay from hunters and little farmers i know or hunting – really – for myself with fishing rod and my bow. In my feeling that’s okay, it is in my opinion – and only for my way of live – a part of being human to hunt. I know, you see this point completely different, an for me it is okay. That you make for you the decision, that you don’t want eat meat ore use products, that comes from animals, is an very fine way to live and it don’t delimit the live of other people. Only you become some of this stupid things you talking about, this things with the “-ism” at the end and make the demand, that all humans must live in your way…

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