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Originally Posted by twinklesweep
Unless I'm completely missing something, I don't understand this at all. A privately owned chain of stores (free enterprise...) makes a decision not to sell a particular product, and that makes us a "nanny state" and represents our freedoms being taken away? What freedom is being taken from me when a private business enterprise makes a decision as CVS has? At the risk of being facetious, am I going to hear next that the "nanny state" should step in and mandate that CVS cannot do what it has decided to do?
I don't experience stores running their moral codes on me; if anything, it's the reverse. There are stores and other businesses I choose not to patronize for a variety of reasons, and I am free to boycott them in relation to my own moral codes. My boycott may not amount to a hill of beans to the business, but I must live with myself, and no government agency is telling me what to do in relation to this.
I am amused at the hypocrisy of those who don't want government involvement in their lives, that is, until it serves them to have the services of the government available to them.... However, what CVS chooses to do regarding tobacco products has nothing to do with governmental dictates; those who feel the chain has done this for purely profitable business reasons with no regard for the public are certainly entitled to feel this way. I would suspect that there are smokers and others who will choose to boycott CVS, and that is certainly their right. But the government is not involved in this one!
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How about this same company not selling the day after pill. Is that their choice? Your choice? The governments choice?
What else do they decide what not to sell based on their morale convictions or perceived health benefits?
I guess eventually we the consumer will have to know which drug stores sell what. Blah. I've got enough other stuff to think about.
To me it makes more sense to sell what people are buying and let the people themselves decide if they want to use a certain product.