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From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
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Subject: Shopping Malls (yes, again)
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Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 12:15:38 EDT
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> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)

>> [analogy between malls and private residences]
> The fatal flaw in this analogy, and the one which keeps the controversy
> alive, is this:
>
> Owners of shopping malls don't "choose to allow" the general public on 
> their property. They *require* the general public to use their property
> in order for it to fulfill its function. On the other hand, your home
> has no such need for the attention of the general public.

If this is all that keeps the controversy alive, it is dead meat.  :-)

In a mall, you got your shoppers, your merchants, your delivery
personell, and so on.  In a private residence, you got your mail
carriers, your meter readers, your sub-leasors, and so on.  The analogy
isn't even strained.  In each case there is a subset of "the general
public" that is required and desired, and another subset that is not.
The only difference is the specific subsets involved.

[   Side note: If the subset of the general public that is required and
    desired for the operation of a private residence actually goes to
    zero, the owner is then technically called a "hermit".  Or sometimes
    an Old rot13(Sneg).    :-) ]

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