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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Libertarians and ERA
Message-ID: <1340032@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 21:35:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 21:35:00 1985
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>/* mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) /  4:05 pm  Apr 23, 1985 */
>In article <1340023@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>> Wrong!  If the proprietor is discriminating against blacks only because
>> the majority of his customers desire that he does so, then these
>> customers incur a cost, i.e., they are limiting the number of 
>> restaurants that they can eat in.

>Isn't it funny that during the first 100 years of freedom, these "costs"
>were not sufficient to cause changes in the south?

You've taken this out of context!  I stated that there are costs
incurred by discriminators.  I did not say that this would cause any
action in particular.

>If the costs to many are small, and the profits for few are plentiful,
>then the highly motivated few usually can persuade the indifferent many
>to maintain the status quo.

Then the indifferent many are fools!


						Michael Sykora