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I don’t agree with that. All those are voluntary associations, and freedom of association is at least as important as freedom of speech. What I do think is tha

I don’t agree with that. All those are voluntary associations, and freedom of association is at least as important as freedom of speech. What I do think is that being fired should not be a death sentence; that there should be a mechanism, possibly the Government in our current society, by which one can continue living with food and a roof over one’s head even if people refuse to associate with that person. Generally speaking, I don’t think there should be an entity which can prevent you from feeding and housing yourself in the first place, though.

dependenttypes 7y ago
> freedom of association is at least as important as freedom of speech. In that case, do you believe that it should be legal to fire/refuse service/kick out of teams and events someone due to their gender, religion, or sexual orientation?
- vertex-four 7y ago
  The fact of the matter is that all this happens, legal or not. I’ve not had work in years, in the first instances because of illegal discrimination. I’ve been assaulted for being in the “wrong” spaces. People care so intensely much about freedom of association that they’ll break the law and use violence in order to maintain it. So what should we do, given that enforcing association by law doesn’t work? My solution is in anarchism; stop preventing me from living my own life (through a capitalist society enforced by the state, police and prisons) and I’ll stop forcing myself on yours.