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Originally Posted by Telluride
I guess I just don't see how Person A has a responsibility for the housing needs/desires of Person B.
EDIT: The Hayek quote in my signature seems appropriate here.
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It should come as no shocker to you or Hayek that existence in any
society necessarily requires a balance between individual and collective rights.
And in any case, it isn't nearly so simple as Person A and Person B. Imagine all of the landlords in an entire neighborhood won't rent to people of a certain skin color. At some point, individual effects become collective effects.
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I still don't see that any type of discrimination is irresponsible. It's bad for business, but being a dick to potential customers isn't something the government should be involved in, in my opinion.
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It isn't necessarily bad for business. I imagine in some places the right type of discrimination is very profitable.
The problem (for folk who share your perspective) is that most of your country folk seem to disagree with you about the extent to which the government should be involved with the practices of private businesspeople. The "shoulds" aren't really all that important to me. As far as I'm concerned, the issue here is that landlords failed to exercise their unenumerated rights with foresight, and in doing so, lost them.