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Originally Posted by filtherton
FTA, laws against tenant discrimination came about as a direct result of the market's failure to control the distribution of rental units in a satisfactory way.
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Read: because we didn't like the way other people used their property.
Childishness dressed up in language designed to assume a right to an apartment without forthrightly - and honestly - stating that assumption. It's a 'failure' because you wanted it to happen and it didn't. 'Failure' doesn't mean very much more than "something else happened" in that context.
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If private businesses want to operate in public, they need to behave in ways acceptable to the general public.
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Until, of course, you find yourself disagreeing with the general public. Hence, the lawsuits.
If a newspaper doesn't like a private business, it can refuse advertising space. Potential tenants can boycott. The general public can avoid and badmouth to its heart's content - and I'd normally be right there along with them. But if a tenant still wants to rent from the bigot down the street, that's none of the general public's business. Or yours.
I prefer a much less tyrannical majority.