Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihu1m!jho From: jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish Subject: Re: Down to Brass Tacks Message-ID: <562@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 12:33:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ihu1m.562 Posted: Sun Jul 28 12:33:16 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:14:53 EDT References: <11605@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1236@pyuxd.UUCP> <167@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16 > What "rights of employment/housing/etc."? Who says a man has > any more right to compel an employer to hire him than the employer has > to compel a worker to work for him? Who says a man has any more right > to compel a landlord to rent to him than the landlord has to compel a > tenant to rent from him? As you say, "It ain't a 'right' at all." > > -- Matt Rosenblatt We are not talking about the general question of how an employer selects an employee. The question is can someone be hired/fired because he/she is gay, a black person, a Jew, etc. Can discrimination be discriminatory. Can the law prohibit discrimination of some groups while allow discrinating others. -- Yosi Hoshen, AT&T Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois, Mail: ihnp4!ihu1m!jho