Huh...Religious Conservatives were right...

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Spider]

In a perfect world I'd say everyone should hang up the following sign and be done with it:


But, because of how much the real, imperfect world sucks, I hold that businesses that discriminate against a race, gender, creed, sexual orientation, handicap, or whatever the hell else should be smashed under a giant regulatory hammer like the cockroaches they are.

[John Galt]

when i have a business i won't serve to lanky ginger f**k (female redheads welcome!)

[eynon81]

[Spider]

Great. So start turning away black people on the basis of the Curse of Ham.

Or start a religion for yourself that allows you to turn away anyone but atheist Aryans.

That line is so broad you can hide behind it while doing pretty much anything.

[John Galt]

well i think such things are covered under freedom of association. for example, the civil rights act's provisions forcing private actors to be non-discriminatory is unconstitutional, immoral and bad policy

[Professor]

We have every right to discriminate based upon our personal beliefs. The only time that right is denied is when it is applied using federal (or most states', cities', and other municipalities') money, housing, employment and a few other things.

You can discriminate against dark-haired people, people with moles on their faces, the disabled, the elderly, the young, anything.

Even the governmental protections against discrimination are both unfair and discriminatory in-and-of themselves. For instance, you cannot deny a job to a person because of their age, right? Wrong. You cannot deny a person a job because they are too old. But, you can easily deny a person a job because they are too young (in your opinion). Even if the young person has the experience required, you can tell them, "You're too young."

I'm not saying that I agree with discriminatory practices. I think that if you have money, you can buy my product. In that, I am discriminatory - I only see green!

But, we have to draw a line somewhere. We drew that line by protecting sex, age, religion and a few others when dealing with Federal dollars, employment, housing and the rest of it.

If you advocate no lines at all, then a convenience store would not be able to discriminate against people without shoes or shirts. Fancy restaurants would not be able to deny service to people in bathing suits.

[Spider]

@Galt
Its fantastic policy. It just isn't ideologically pure.

[eynon81]