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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- Message-ID: <9212282331.AA09637@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:31:51 -0800
- Sender: Forum for the Discussion of Politics <POLITICS@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- From: Andy Freeman <andy@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU>
- Subject: Re: <None>
- In-Reply-To: <POLITICS%92122814252057@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU>
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- >> However, he also suggested that that was the only "legit" reason and
- >> that none other had been offered.
- >
- >Wrong. I suggested that there was no "legit" reason, and that none had
- >been offered that could stand up to examination.
-
- While that has the advantage of accurately reflecting Peter's position,
- it's wrong.
-
- >> No, it isn't. Restrictions come from third parties. Choices by
- >> participants are different. For example, restrictions require
- >> enforcement while choices don't.
- >
- >No, restrictions come from others. Whether they are second, third or
- >nth parties is irrelevant. The relevant question is whether they are
- >violating the rights of the person restricted and, if so, that violation
- >is warranted by other important concerns.
-
- While Peter may want to gloss over this distinction, it allows us to
- avoid the absurdity of "Peter is violating my friend's right to have
- sex with a consenting adult by refusing to put out". (Said friend is
- willing to travel, so Peter is free to propose a convenient time.)
-
- >> Actually, we are trying to avoid "he can't afford that"
- >> "discrimination", which is why I used that example. Why is "doesn't
- >> have enough money" acceptable when "wrong orientation/color" isn't?
- >> Why is "wrong orientation/color" acceptable from employees/customers,
- >> but not employers/sellers?
- >
- >Because both parties to the transaction have rights.
-
- Right, and we're trying to figure out the extent of those rights. I
- note that buyers have the right of arbitrary refusal, usually.
-
- >The seller has the right to a fair price.
-
- Who decides that fair price? Can the seller use non-monetary
- considerations?
-
- >The buyer has the right to the goods if that price is met.
-
- Another friend has sex with selected consenting adults for free.
- Obviously the agreed on price for said friend is "$0"; does this imply
- that anyone who comes up with $0 is entitled to a good time?
-
- >Furthermore, the employee or buyer has a limited ability to damage
- >the employer or seller--there is no dependency relationship, for the
- >most part. The employer or seller has a greater ability to damage the
- >employee (job hunter) or buyer,
-
- How is the prospective employee damaged? S\He has everything s\he had
- before. That's just like a prospective, yet shunned, employer.
-
- I note that the Ferrari dealer "depends" on customers for sales, just
- as the customers depend on said dealer for Ferraris from that dealer.
- If anything, the dealer is more dependent.
-
- >as Jim Crow should have proven pretty conclusively.
-
- Jim Crow is an illuminating example. It demonstrates that Peter has
- difficulty distinguishing govt action (restrictions by my definition)
- from private choices. The Jim Crow laws also demonstrate that Peter's
- approach doesn't have the "it always cuts the right way" feature he
- assumes.
-
- >> We're going to have to require synagogues to hire Nazis and AAs to
- >> patronize Nazis, abandon this whole misguided endeavor, or prove that
- >> we're discriminating against "bad" politics. Pick one.
- >
- >Considering the history of the Nazis, it is reasonable for a synagogue
- >to prefer that employees not be Nazis (or be Jews, which should have
- >the same result).
-
- We could show the same benefit from restrictive housing covenants,
- which Peter opposes.
-
- >A business owned by Jews is another matter.
-
- I guess this is just one of those eggs.
-
- >Andy seems to have some trouble with the concept that other people have
- >rights, too.
-
- I have no trouble with the idea that other people have the same rights
- that I want for myself. They have a right to refuse to associate, the
- same right that I have. Unlike Peter, I have no interest in sicing
- thugs on them to get them to interact. Peter seems to think that
- every interaction should be monitored by the "is this good" police. I
- prefer the judgement of the participants.
-
- -andy
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