Wednesday, June 02, 2004
Ladies Night Banned in NJ
Does everything that may be possibly discriminatory be illegal? Does every immoral act need be illegal?
Of course not.
People have such a repulsion to discrimination due to shameful Jim Crow laws that they want the government to prevent any discrimination. I disagree.
I don't want the state to mandate discrimination. But does the state need to mandate non-discrimination of private establishments? I would boycott any establishment that discriminated on the basis of race. I am confident that a blatantly racist restaraunt would go out of business, at least where I live. But what if it didn't? Should we give racists more money by making them take money from people they hate? I would rather know who the racists are and give my money to someone else. But I could care less about an establishment that was women-only.
Obviously, these laws aren't going to change. Could you imagine a politician saying "I will let people do what they want (so long as it doesn't hurt someone) even if what they are doing is morally wrong"? Not happening.
Does everything that may be possibly discriminatory be illegal? Does every immoral act need be illegal?
Of course not.
People have such a repulsion to discrimination due to shameful Jim Crow laws that they want the government to prevent any discrimination. I disagree.
I don't want the state to mandate discrimination. But does the state need to mandate non-discrimination of private establishments? I would boycott any establishment that discriminated on the basis of race. I am confident that a blatantly racist restaraunt would go out of business, at least where I live. But what if it didn't? Should we give racists more money by making them take money from people they hate? I would rather know who the racists are and give my money to someone else. But I could care less about an establishment that was women-only.
Obviously, these laws aren't going to change. Could you imagine a politician saying "I will let people do what they want (so long as it doesn't hurt someone) even if what they are doing is morally wrong"? Not happening.
