Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors
quindraco@lemm.ee 7 months agoHow do you ban such a cafe while also banning slavery? How do you draw a line between permissible and impermissible compulsory labor when you’re drafting your Constitution to reign in future politicians?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It is not permitted to own another human being.
It is not permitted to discriminate against a human being based on a protected class such as race.
Is there some contradiction there that I’m not seeing?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I think the reasoning is that since having a job is essential for almost everyone, then by making it illegal to have a job in which one may refuse to deal with members of a protected class, the government is effectively compelling everyone to deal with them, which might be seen as a form of forced labor.
zaph@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’d be a massive stretch. Getting paid to do a job you don’t like isn’t slavery.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I think from the libertarian point of view, being compelled to do something is bad even if that thing itself isn’t all that difficult or unpleasant. I’m a pretty stubborn, libertarian-leaning person myself and I would resent doing even all my favorite things in the world if the government were making me do them.
(I still wouldn’t make the comparison to slavery myself.)
wahming@monyet.cc 7 months ago
I’m not seeing a problem with ‘treat people as people regardless of their skin colour’.