Re: Anti-Discrimination Laws

Robert Snower (rs219@IDIR.NET)
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:39:13 -0500

At 09:27 PM 7/1/96 -0700, Mike Shupp wrote:
> D
> This is unnecessarily abstract, I think. Anti-discrimination
> statutes worked because most people felt queasy about racial
> bias. Maybe it is your free and inalienable right to refuse
> to serve meals to Blacks, for example, and maybe I'd even be
> willing to stand up in court and say you should have this right.
>
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You are successfully explaining why anti-discrimination laws worked. I am
trying to explain why it is NOT "your free and inalienable right to refuse
to serve meals to Blacks," and why it is immoral for you "to stand up in
court and say you should have this right," in the same sense it is immoral
to operate in restraint of trade. One destroys democracy, the other
destroys the free market.

Best wishes. R. Snower rs219@idir.net