Yesterday evening, my friend Cargill decided to poke the bear.  In response to the internet vitriol over Chick-Fil-A, he tweeted the following:

Boycotting a business over their business practices is the democratic free market in action. Doing so over their personal opinions is not.

By boycotting a business over personal opinions, you are saying it is okay to threaten someone’s livelihood if they don’t think like you.

Let’s start by pointing out that Cargill isn’t a dick.  Yes, he’s a Republican and I’m a left-of-Democrat liberal but he and I actually agree on most social political matters and even some economic ones.   I don’t fully agree with him here, although I do see what he is saying and understand the point he’s trying to make.

He’s a good guy and he argues fairly.  I’m not trying to take him down.  He got me to think and that is a good thing.  He’s very good at it.

But this isn’t an argument that could be fairly explored over Twitter.

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