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use the market place to correct them A rather fragile business plan, perhaps not in 2013 USA, but certainly elsewhere in the world and historically. The liber
by courtf 13y ago
use the market place to correct them
A rather fragile business plan, perhaps not in 2013 USA, but certainly elsewhere in the world and historically. The libertarian argument always seems to assume rational actors playing in ideal conditions. In other words, a situation unlikely to ever arise on its own...
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoFortunately we have a government of rational actors playing in ideal conditions to legislate for us!
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoOh stop it. It wasn't your precious market that ended segregation or created an environment where people felt safe from lynchings. Lets just get back to reality for a minute.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoSegregation was a government policy.
- djur 13y agoNot in its entirety. Private discrimination continued well after the Jim Crow laws were overturned.
- pdonis 13y agoIn addition to djur's correct observation, there is also the observation that government policies supporting segregation came after people's private desire to segregate, not before; in fact, the government policies came into being in large measure because of people's private desire to segregate.
- mistermann 13y agoActually, I would argue that it is not governance that has achieved the vastly improved social acceptance of the LBGT community, it is simply society gradually changing its mind, through education and simply greater exposure, without being forced. It seems to me you would suggest acceptance cannot be achieved without government intervention, but from where I sit that is exactly what is happening - it just takes time.
- pdonis 13y agoIt wasn't your precious market that ended segregation or created an environment where people felt safe from lynchings. Neither did the government passing laws. What ended these things, to the extent that they are ended (try looking up the figures for racially motivated violence in inner cities sometime), was changes in people's attitudes. And those changes are mainly due to compulsory public education plus generational turnover: the old bigots died and their children were indoctrinated with a different mindset.
- courtf 13y agoNot at all what I was implying. Not everything is so black and white, yeesh. It's getting so a guy can't pontificate without having a bunch of pre-conceived positions applied to him before even getting the chance to... oh wait, this is the internet.