--- In [email protected], Cory Nott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If a small town restaurant doesn't want to serve African- Americans, is it worth the cost of forcing them to do so?
> > Also, I wonder how strongly do you believe in the First Amendment. I suppose free speech is important to you, right? Well, what about the freedom of association? Is that not as important, or are some rights less inherent or more rightfully trampled by government intervention? A person should be free to associate, in his or her property or business, with whomever he or she pleases. Some people will choose not to associate with members of another race. I choose not to associate with racists. > > Cory > Okay, some interesting points by Cory and others. Maybe I should have used a better example, not that I am convinced yet over the restaurant example. People do have a right to associate with who they want and also the right not to associate. But eating out and enjoying the use of various businesses is also a right and a freedom. It is denied in the case of a racist business owner. How about the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Happiness could be defined by the right and ability to use various businesses. Now let's take a more important example, work. In a Libertarian world could a business owner discriminate against minorities for hiring? I am not talking about quotas or affirmative action, just getting a job if you are the most qualified and also a minority. What if again, like the restaurant example, the business owner did not want to hire the minority and stood to make more money by not hiring him and not losing his regular racist customers? Are minorities just out of luck in a Libertarian world? I see at this time from the other posts, that one Libertarian politician has just left the party over the racism issues. Libertarians appear to be focused on liberties and freedom, but how about the freedom to go into any business, the freedom to get a job when you are the most qualified, the freedom to earn a living, the freedom to pursue happiness? Or does that just apply to members of the majority race? David ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
