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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Libertarians and ERA
Message-ID: <479@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 14:45:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 14:45:52 1985
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In article <6323@ucbvax.ARPA> fagin@ucbvax.UUCP (Barry Steven Fagin) writes:
> The freedom to discriminate against ANYBODY is part of a natural notion
> of liberty, not a perverse one.  

"Natural notion of liberty", huh?  What makes it a natural notion of liberty?
That it fits in with your wishful thinking?

Hey, I have a natural notion of liberty which includes the liberty to make
war (and otherwise coerce my neighbors.)  Why shouldn't I?

> Discrimination in a free market costs money (see Thomas 
> Sowell, "Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality").

On the contrary.  Discrimination can be extremely profitable.  Consider (for
example) a deep south restaurant 30 or more years ago that serves only white
customers.  If they started accepting black customers, their bigoted white
customers would desert in droves and go to other all-white restaurants.
If all the restaurants are coerced at once into changing policy the vicious
cycle will be broken.
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh