While we're on the subject thereof.. and to play Devil's Advocate (for educational purposes) I ask my fellow forum members if they have any quarrels with a private business, such as a retail establishment, to act in a way, that, if it were the government, would be in violation of nearly all of the U.S. Amendments? Setting up cameras at nearly every view and angle of the store, having someone constantly be watching surveillance, store employees checking your receipt upon leaving the store - even without having any suspicion if a theft, not allowing people with any type of religious or political slogan on their shirt, etc.
Do you respect a private retail establishment's right to enact these rules?
If so, are your reasons for respecting their right out of ethical and moral reasoning? Or Constitutional reasoning?
What, ethically and morally, would make it wrong for the government to act in such way that wouldn't also be applied to private property?
