Businesses should be allowed to turn away women, gay and black people

[doodab]

Anyone who supposes that business should be forced to treat all potential patrons equally is a sick puppy.

How about monopolies & near monopolies such as train operating companies? Should the government allow private enterprise to unilaterally create apartheid? How about when the neighbors decide on economic sanctions that hurt everyone?

[Flashman]

I thought the Troll Patrol hated the Daily Mail?

Anyway before you read the DM or the Guardian Some background on Libertarianism which is at the crux of the argument.


What is Libertarian? | The Institute for Humane Studies

The central idea of libertarianism is that people should be permitted to run their own lives as they wish

Liberals favor government action to promote equality, whereas conservatives favor government action to promote order. Libertarians favor freedom and oppose government action to promote either equality or order

Platform | Libertarian Party

As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.

Buying and selling good and services is an individual choice and not one that the state should interfere with.

I'm actually surprised just how many contractors on here seem to like the idea of State control.

Or is a case of one rule for me and one rule for the little people?

[doodab]

Or is a case of one rule for me and one rule for the little people?

I think it's a case of not wanting to live in the middle ages.

[Mich the Tester]

I thought the Troll Patrol hated the Daily Mail?

Anyway before you read the DM or the Guardian Some background on Libertarianism which is at the crux of the argument.


What is Libertarian? | The Institute for Humane Studies





Platform | Libertarian Party



Buying and selling good and services is an individual choice and not one that the state should interfere with.

I'm actually surprised just how many contractors on here seem to like the idea of State control.

Or is a case of one rule for me and one rule for the little people?

As I suggested earlier, I'm quite happy for a privately owned business to discriminate against or turn away about 70% of the population on nonsensical criteria, as long as the rest of us don't have to pick up the financial damage when it goes bust as a consequence of such stupidity.

[Flashman]

I think it's a case of not wanting to live in the middle ages.

Incorrect. Society in the middle ages was very strictly controlled by the Church and the Aristocracy. You did what your superior wanted. Everyone had a place and woe betide you if you tried to change that.

[Flashman]

As I suggested earlier, I'm quite happy for a privately owned business to discriminate against or turn away about 70% of the population on nonsensical criteria, as long as the rest of us don't have to pick up the financial damage when it goes bust as a consequence of such stupidity.

A Libertarian would agree with you there.

[MicrosoftBob]

Buying and selling good and services is an individual choice and not one that the state should interfere with.

I'm actually surprised just how many contractors on here seem to like the idea of State control.

Or is a case of one rule for me and one rule for the little people?

That's it pick on the midgets!

[SpontaneousOrder]

How about monopolies & near monopolies such as train operating companies? Should the government allow private enterprise to unilaterally create apartheid? How about when the neighbors decide on economic sanctions that hurt everyone?

Well in that case the trains are only pseudo-private, so I guess it wouldn't make sense for them ostracise particular sections of the public who legislate their practises and existence.

Private enterprise cannot unilaterally create apartheid. Only their customer's (i.e. the public )can.

I don't understand what the neighbours thing means?

[petergriffin]

True Libertarians are also proponents of open borders and free movement of capital and labour.

How well this bodes with UKIP, heaven help me!

[d000hg]

I would add that if businesses choose to turn away more than half the population (women about 50%, gays between 5 and 10% and black people I think between 5 and 10%), then when they go bust as a consequence, the owners should lose limited liability rights for being cretins and should not receive any state benefits; I don't see why women, black people and gay people should pay NI contributions to finance the benefits of sexist, racist, homophobic losers.

So a company making sanitary towels would be penalised then - they're only selling to the subset of the female population who menstruate?