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Originally Posted by Telluride
If the government recognized the right of landlords to rent to whomever they wanted, these anti-discrimination laws wouldn't exist in the first place.
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The government recognized the right of landlords to rent to whomever they wanted by default. It turned out that there were some landlords who couldn't quite handle the responsibility, and so that right was taken away.
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And I would also argue that discriminating against potential tenants may not be nice, but I'm not sure it qualifies as irresponsible.
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It isn't so much the discriminating that's irresponsible, it's the discriminating based on race and/or religion and/or sexual preference and/or etc that's irresponsible. Landlords are business people, and business people have certain responsibilities to the communities in which they do business.
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That's not what is being argued here. Nobody is saying that a property owner should be able to use his or her property to imprison sex slaves, for example. It is being argued that property owners have a right to decide who gets to use their property.
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I wish I knew what was being argued here, but alas, FTA won't start a new thread to outline his position, so I'm forced to attempt to reconstruct it via the smattering of statements he has made. As you can see, it's not a very efficient way to argue.