I don't think government's job is to try to force people treat others as equals either.
It isn't. It's
people who are tired of getting stomped on by corporations and businesses and who take the bigger boot of the government and stomp a little back.
If you want to open up a racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory business I think you should be able to. I'll probably be there protesting it and trying to put you out of business but freedom should include letting business owners make stupid decisions.
I would daresay the only reason you'd be protesting is because of all those laws
in the first place to force businesses to treat human beings as human beings. You and most of us seem to take it for granted that we'd be outraged at Starbucks saying "no blacks allowed" but, in reality, in our country's history, all of our stores and people were allowed to discriminate and guess what? No one shopped somewhere else, no one particularly protested this unequal treatment, no one cared.
In reality, in our country's past, there were companies and people with businesses that ran mining towns or what have you. The workers may not have thought of themselves as slaves, but slaves they were. Why? There was no equality in the boss/worker relationship. A miner had to buy from the mine store, had to go to the mine church, work in the mine itself, buy his home from the mine company, and so on. Freedom to go "work somewhere else if you don't like it" is more an ideal than the reality, IMO.
Perhaps it's like thinking it as the government didn't come along and say "we'll fix your problems" but more like people who were downtrodden, powerless, people who just wanted to be like his fellow citizens Told His Government, help make this fair!
Then the rise of the legal fiction of a corporation has been the biggest single destructive factor to this country, IMVHO. Now suddenly one person can own thousands of stores. How can anyone effectively boycott such a monstrosity? The answer: we can't. Look around you. Multinational companies skip out on being beholden to our laws for example. When the only stores around were mom and pop stores, then, yes, your way worked. You could in fact shop somewhere else and you could make your wishes known in cold hard cash walking away. How about now? Aren't there but half dozen megacorps that own several dozen different chains, all with different menus, items for sale, different names and different sales pitches? How do you take your money elsewhere, when the vast majority of people don't even know who owns what? Take your money from Albertsons down to Safeway, but lo and behold, both are owned by the same company! Your money lines thier pockets no matter where you go.
Now what? How else can you possibly try and combat the continual trampling of OUR human rights?
The founding fathers I doubt could have comprehended the industrial revolution and how the very face of society and the world has changed because of it. Please, let us all go back to 1777 again. Kill corporations first. Kill the heavy, heavy tax burden being placed on small businesses. Stop the global new world order.
In the meantime, gimme a law that helps defend my enumerated constitutional rights as opposed to just yet another billion laws that continually take them away.
Of course not, but is it the government's place to make that property owner fix their dumb rules or is it up to us as consumers to just put them out of business or force them to change their rules on our own?
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