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- From: stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (coram populo)
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- Subject: Re: But it is OK to coerce certain groups...
- Message-ID: <1k1dc2INN8tn@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:00:18 GMT
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- In article <JLqXXB2w165w@surfcty.com> rlm@surfcty.com (Robert McMillin) writes:
- >In article <1jvtk2INNqn4@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU
- >(coram populo) writes:
- >
- >> In article <1993Jan24.200107.8864@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- >> >A: I'd like to have sex with you. A: I'd like to rent your room.
- >> >B: No thanks, you're not what I want. B: No thanks, you're not what I want.
- >> >A: Oh well, too bad. A: Discrimination!!!!
- >> >
- >> >1. 80% of all "landlords" in California are individuals, not businesses.
- >>
- >What this boils down to is the idea that that freedom of choice within
- >sexual intercourse should be a protected right, while within economic
- >intercourse it should not. This is the exemplary attitude of the
- >socialist: protect my rights, but restrict those of that bad group over
- >there. If the majority passes laws for the regulation of some people's
- >activities (in this case, economic ones), then they may come knocking
- >down your door to see what goes on behind it (in Georgia's case, the
- >anti-sodomy laws). In other words, if the majority in certain
- >California cities happen to believe in mild forms of socialism and place
- >(IMHO, unconstitutional) limits on rent, what's so wrong with a majority
- >in Georgia who happen to believe that homosexuality is a sin passing
- >anti-sodomy laws?
- >
-
- So we should take all restrictive laws both in personal and business sense
- off the books- allow whatever a business want's to do. The question of
- boiling down- is not about your incorrect defintion of socialsim, and of
- course it is very unfashionable to mention socialsim, but rather how do
- we decide what the limits are to both personal liberty and business liberty.
- In some cases we have seen what happens in the business sphere, when left
- unchecked.
-
- Therefore, you would have to agree that a business which decides to exercise
- a discriminatory attitude, must be allowed (as in personal civil rights) all
- forms of discrimation.
-
- For instance, it would be acceptable for a business, not to pay one empolyee's
- benefits for health insurance, while paying another employees, and give no
- particular reason. Or pay one employee half the salary of another employee
- for the same job and performance level. In the social contact of any society,
- people look for and expect, to a certain degree, fairness in treatment.
-
- Let's face one fact, if we want complete unfettered rights for individuals
- and businesses, then these things are going to happen, and people are not
- going to like it, and eventually groups of people will start building another
- set of laws and regulations.
-
- It would be interesting to get responses from people that are not clouded
- by ideas such as socialism, facist, communist etc. This is at best, a process
- of simply labelling and therefore dismissing other's ideas, becuase if it
- smells of any ideas then it must be.
-
- >> So in the sphere of business, where there is no democracy, but
- >> only legally binding contractual agreements, discrimating based
- >> on color, creed, religion or whatever does not make much sense.
- >
- >That's true. It's also true that landlords doing so lose business by
- >turning down well-qualified people who happen to be in groups they
- >dislike. That's their problem.
-
- Well in certain parts of this country and city's this is not true.
- Escpecially if it is a renters market. And in just the reverse state,
- their are landlords who own tenements and rent to people that they
- feel they can basically take advantage of- high rents, poor facilities,
- rundown dwellings, etc. but this is business afterall. ANd so what
- if landlord X charges $800.00 a month for a room, with no toilet, or
- broken windows. It is all just business.
-
- I also want to point out that in an area where I live, landlords could
- easily do what they wanted, discriminate (and they do- I know from personal
- experience) and still have no problems renting their properties and
- making their profits. Real estate markets are always changing, but people
- in general, always need a place to live. So when I hear the cries and
- moans of the property owner, I do not feel to badly for them...
-