Ors Might wrote:Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States wrote:The freedom of association means you can associate with anyone you want. It is not a right of non-association.
There is no right to be served. There is, however, a right of non-discrimination.
But we are getting off topic. I asked how anyone is hurt by not being allowed to discriminate, besides losing the right itself. If you lose the freedom of association, you can no longer express yourself freely as a person. If you lose the right of expression, you can be punished for thinking a certain way. But if you limit the right to discriminate, what horrific fate will befall humanity?
This does not mean that someoe can’t deny customers. Just not because of their intrinsic properties.
And the freedom of speech means you can’t choose to not speak while the 2A means you have to own a firearm.
No, no this is perfectly on topic. Are you suggesting that a right to not be discriminated against exists? That’s absurd. One wouldn’t hire a blind man as a surgeon or as a school bus driver.
You lose the right to choose with whom you associate with. In other words, you can be compelled to enter into agreements and contracts with those you’d rather not, backed with the threat of losing your livelihood. That’s not a good foundation for anything to be built on.
See, in the case of the blind bus driver, there is actually a good reason not to allow a blind person to drive a bus.
What good reason is there not to serve a black person a milkshake? Or sell a gay person a car? You are giving a good reason for the blind person, so I expect you can give a good reason for these other people as well.
Not compelled to enter into agreements and contracts with those you would rather not with. That's absolutely fine. As long as that decision is not solely based on race, sex, religion or gender. You can still freely decide who to enter into contract with, but if you had entered into a contract with someone, and the only reason for not doing that is one of the aforementioned reasons, then you only lose money by not serving those people.
Of course, no-one is threatening 'someone's whole livelihood'. Rather, people are proposing fines. If a person can only do business while being sexist, racist or homophobic, maybe business is just not for that person.
As a society, we have agreed that racism, sexism, and homophobia are wrong. So, I see no problem in banning those ideas from business.