Does requiring businesses to hire just anyone who happens to apply for a job guarantee enough jobs for everyone? Do laws against discrimination actually prevent discrimination? How can you prove that a company discriminated against someone? If I was a white guy, and a black female got the job, how do I know that I wasn't discriminated against? If all companies were require to give preference to minorities would unemployment be any lower?
I was having this very discussion with ArcanaXV on the side, and I freely admit that simply having a law on the books doesn't mean squat all on its own. Discrimination -- real discrimination -- is very hard to prove.
Even so, I believe it is important that there be a mechanism for redress in the event that a demonstrable manifestation of said discrimination is, in fact, found.
Personally, I started my business on $1,500. Now I would never recommend anyone to try that, but virtually everyone has the "means to establish bsuinesses". During the spring it seems like every ya-who with a lawn mower is starting a grass cutting business (they are all coming to us for business cards). It's actually possible to start a business with no resources other than your brain.
I suppose, but people have limits, and simply saying "you can do it if you put your mind to it" isn't always enough, in practice.
Me to. Sometimes not hiring someone that you know you will have ill feelings (for any reason) towards is conducting oneself like a reasonable adult.
If you have ill feelings towards someone simply because of their skin color, ethnic heritage, religious affiliation, physical appearance, political disposition, sexual orientation, and yes even credit rating, it is my opinion that you are not a reasonable adult. To act like one, you would need to keep your animosity to yourself.
I am quite sure that slave owners felt that they were robbed when they had to release slaves that they bought and paid for. I am not suggesting that slavery was right, it certainly wasn't.
You didn't answer my question.
You said, "For every law that we create to fix a social injustice, we create an equal and opposit social injustice."
I asked you, "What about when we ended slavery?"
I'm not asking you how you think the slave owners felt. I'm asking you if the abolition of slavery created an equal and opposite social injustice.
But not allowing employers to choose the type of employees that they prefer is unfair to the employer and to job applicants. If you create laws that take away my right as a business owner to run my business the way I see fit, then you have infringed upon my rights.
We need fewer laws not more.
In thoery, I do agree, but in practice -- especially in today's economy, with how hard it is to find work and thus how hard it's getting to pay the bills -- this kind of arbitrary BS is taking food out of the mouths of able-bodied workers.
Would you rather they go on public assistance?