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I'm not interested in arguing the viewpoint you seem intent on attributing to me.
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No, it was a failure because entire neighborhoods were being segregated by racist landlords. That's not how a free market ought to operate. That's not how a free nation ought to operate. Everybody has a right to be a bigot. But, renting property is a responsibility, and part of that responsibility is not discriminating against people for being the wrong color or for wanting to bone the wrong gender of person.
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I must be seeing things, then.
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Perhaps if you would come out and state exactly what your position is on the matter, then I wouldn't have to hop around from one thing to another trying to figure out just exactly what the point of anything you're saying is.
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Already done. You can always ask for clarification.
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Here's what happened: some landlords failed to behave in socially acceptable ways-- they showed an inability to behave in a way that society found acceptable. I'm sorry that the mere mention of these facts implies about me, well, whatever the hell you think it implies about me. Your attributions of me aren't my responsibility. I just thought it odd that you'd be so sensitive to language.
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The general public failed to safeguard the property rights of landowners and abetted theft under cover of Civil Rights laws. There's some facts, too. Surely made by a neutral observer.
It takes no more than a very basic sensitivity to language to realize that you have a horse in this race. And that's even without referencing that second quote in this post. Stop being disingenuous.
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No, it's not. It's a waste of time-- at least as far as conversations with you have been. Hey FTA, why is abortion murder? Let me answer for you: because it is. That's all moral judgments boil down to: convoluted, self important rationalizations of "because it is".
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No, don't answer for me. You do a poor job.
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And then think about the ramifications of segregation, and how chalking it up to "meanness" is a gross oversimplification.
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I thought about it. Now you tell me why
you consider it a gross oversimplification. Why it's the kind of meanness that deserves government intervention. Not the 'is', the 'ought'. I'm well-aware of the 'is' already.