Starbucks--Evil Corporation or Trendy Hot Spot?

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Psyton, he meant that you're one to judge people without thinking, considering you're part of a class of people that is judged without thought.
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[epilonious]

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See Pyston, your problem with debating is you come into debates with predisposed notions about personal expirences.

You fail to create a proper arguement because of this.

Look at the rules of debating. You cannot debate on a subject with any prejudice. Look up the word prejudice. Every post you have made in this thread was done with, as the dictionary plainly puts it, with judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.

This is not a debate about the fact that your gay, that my mother is gay, that people I know are gay. It's about Starbucks. A corperation that you hate so much because of your own prejudice against them.

I was raised in a single parent home by a gay woman. Who tought me one of the most important values of being a TRUE human being. Nonprejudice. This means that I take in the facts before making a decision on anything. This was all tought to me by a woman that thruout all of her life has been a victim of prejudice just because of the fact that she is gay. Her family cut her off because she is gay, friends have cut her off because she is gay.

My own family won't even have anything to do with her because she is gay? The kindest, most helpful person I know in my life, is being disregarded as a human being because she is gay? Is that justice? In a country where everyone is supposed to be intitled to freedom of speech and expression, there are still people in this nation that still judge people because they are different. Gay's aren't different, nor are Blacks, Latinos, Jews, Muslims or the hundreds of others out there that deal with rasicm, prejudice and slander because they aren't "normal".

Prejudice is WRONG. IT'S DARE already pointed it out for me. A person that has had to deal with prejudice is the last person I would ever expect to be prejudice against anything. But apparently you took it as Gay Bashing. Which if you did, it wasn't and I am Human enough to appologize that something I said was taken out of context and that you were offeneded by it, but that was not my plan.

But also, I'm not going to attack someone because they have offended me. Something you did instantly at the beginning of your post and all posts since. Not only cause it is a waste of time, but in debating you do not personally attack someone defending the opposing side just because you don't agree with them. When debating you make compairisons between what your debating about and something that will relate to whom you are debating with.

You claim that Starbucks is evil, with extreme Prejudice. Yet I am pretty sure that you don't like it when someone calls you cigarette, homo, fairy, pansy or any of the other derogitory words that homophobes use against you just because your gay. This is also Prejudice. They jump to conclusions about who you are as a person just because your gay without getting to know anything about you. Yet you are doing the same thing when claiming Starbucks is EVIL. Have you sat down and looked into the Starbuck corperation as a whole instead of looking at what you see and making a judgement? If you haven't and it really seems that you haven't, seeing as how you judge Starbucks by your personal expirence, you have made yourself a Hypocrite without even knowing it. Your Prejudging a coperation based on your own personal expirences, just as homophobes prejudge gays because of how they may have been raised, or something that happened to them in the past.

Many psychiatrists have even pointed out that most people that are homophobic are that because of past expirences in their life. Something in their life damaged their view of homosexuals and now because of that they lash out in anger at homosexuals because of it.

Your doing the same against Starbucks. Past expirences with Starbucks in your life now have you lashing out at them, claiming them to be evil.

They are a multibillion dollar corperation. The American Dream. Someone had a small idea to serve coffee on a large scale to millions of customers and it worked. Everyone is entitled to create their dream.

Many say that Starbucks is evil because they are driving out the competition, but thats how part of Buisness works. They aren't purposely driving out those smaller coffee shops. Those smaller coffee shops are just not able to handle the amount of customers that Starbucks can. Buisness is just like life, survival of the fittest.

But also, because of Starbucks, other coffee shops have started to thrive. Why? Because they offer an alternative. This is what real Buisness is about. Competition. You find a nitch and set yourself in it and offer what other companies can't. Without choice there is no Buisness. Without choice, there would only be 1 store for everything, with the same prices that will constantly inflate. It's because of Competition that keep prices down. The buisnesses compete with each other to serve the best product they can for the best price.


I live in a huge city. A place of big buisness and corperations. But if you go all around this city, not only do you see Starbucks, you see many other personally owned coffee shops and alot of smaller corperate coffee shops. Why? Because everyone is not the same, different people like different things and want to purchase what they want in certain ways. Thats why KMart, Walmart, and Target all still exist, even though they offer all the same things. Choice. It's a matter of Choice.

And this is what you are failing to do. You have Choice. You don't have to goto Starbucks, no one is asking you to. But you also have to realize that other people have Choice also. If they want to Build a Starbucks their, that is THEIR Choice. If someone wants to goto Starbucks for their coffee, that is THEIR Choice. It's this choice that allows the Small buisness to still be alive. It's this Choice that makes Starbucks the corperation it is, people like it and go there. Those that don't want to make their coffee shop of CHOICE find other places and trust me they do exist.

Choice.

It's something I leave to you. I'm not here to try to make up your mind, thats for you to do. I only show the facts just like all debaters do.

Choose to read this or Choose not to.
Choose to realize what you wish with the Facts presented.
Choose to attack me again or choose to appologize, which one doesn't really matter to me, because it's not my choice.

My choice is to ignore the slander and state the facts.

What is yours?
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[claw]

wow you write alot pyston

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I think Psyton is just trying to take over Twen's old position of topic crapper.
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[jas]

My barrista yesterday TOTALLY dropped my marble mocah machiatto.

... but then she made me a new one and I was happy again. XD
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Man, You guys can really type.

I wonder if people really read all that text.