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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: 1986 SUPREME COURT RULING - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 05:54:58 EDT
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     ``For many years now, you and I have been shushed like children
     and told there are no simple answers to the complex problems
     which are beyond our comprehension.  Well, the truth is, there
     *are* simple answers.''

     [Ronald Reagan in his Inaugural message as Governer of California]

Mike,

I don't see any sense in assuming that the treatment of Government,
Businesses, and Individuals should be the same.  It is a falacy to
assume that just because something simplifies a discussion it is
automatically true.  Occam's razor does not apply well to politics.

As for the question of why should anti-discrimination laws apply to
how businesses treat individuals and not to how individuals treat
businesses:  I thought I explained that.  Though law often falls short
of the ideal, one of its purposes in this country is the promotion of
freedom and of equality of opportunity, *for the individual*.  In
general the freedom of institutions, whether business, government, or
whatever, is subjugated to individual freedom.  This is not an axiom--
just a strong tendancy, and arguably one of the greatest concepts upon
which our system of government is built.  Alas, people--and government--
seem to forget that the purpose of government is service to the people,
and not self-perpetuation.

		-Ed