Comment on Mona: Court rules women’s-only exhibit must allow male visitors
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago-
It is not permitted to own another human being.
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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 8 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 8 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 8 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.)
bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
how about having to wear out body and mind to earn money to not be excluded from the wealth society has produced? Or is that the part you gladly submit to?
wahming@monyet.cc 8 months ago
I’m not seeing a problem with ‘treat people as people regardless of their skin colour’.