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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6181719" data-attributes="member: 6701124">I hope your home computer situation starts cooperating! So, I think I understand how you're applying things and might be able to explain where I differ.I'm inclined to view deciding to carry something as an action that gives a (possibly minimal) sign of approval of the product (and likely a sign that they also think it will make them money).  I would also view the decision to carry the product as (at least minimally) enabling the product's success by giving its producers the opportunity to sell more of the product and to make it easier for them to do so.I'm also inclined to add that "approving, encouraging, or actively enabling something you think is immoral" is a negative duty.  Thus, it would be a negative duty for a store's owner who believe that sex-and-violence filled AO games are immoral to sell them.On the other hand, I don't think that declining to sell something falls afoul of:unless the store in question has a monopoly on the distribution of that type of product, because I don't think that meets my definition of suppression (namely I don't think there is a right to have one's products sold at particular stores, and declining to sell a product is different than trying to stop others from selling it).I'm also trying to think of a question to ask you about your views of what a blogger or web-site owner who posts about creative things needs to do in regards to anything creative they have submitted to them to avoid negative duty... but I'm having trouble doing so.</blockquote>

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