On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Your right stops right where it conflicts with another person's rights.
True. > Organized policies of discrimination such as vegetarian only buildings are an > example. Don't buy that. You have no rights to another man's property. If the owner allows you to rent his property, it is quite definitely a privilege and not a right. And the fact that a redneck in Birmingham would be arrested for refusing to rent his flat to a black man does not automatically make it right either. Would he be arrested for running a no-pets-allowed property? No? Now, that is what I would term illegal discrimination. It is also not a violation of your rights if you are quoted an exorbitant price for the same property which another person gets quoted a much lesser price for unless it is also a violation for a landlord to lower his rent because he happens to like the tenant. You might as well make it illegal to like one person more than another. That is, after all, discrimination too. Organized discrimination (not including state-sponsored ones) is no different from personal discrimination. Sure, it is even more unfair and extremely ugly. But it is not a rights violation any more than personal discrimination is as long as it applies to private property. Venky (the Second). -- One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong.
