Except by saying "people are free to make the WRONG choice," you're at the same time throwing entire populations under the bus, because...freedom! The civil ri

Except by saying "people are free to make the WRONG choice," you're at the same time throwing entire populations under the bus, because...freedom! The civil rights act didn't spring out of a desire for nanny staters to force us all to listen to Sting and eat kale three times a day. It came out of the fact that, decades after we abolished slavery here, entire regions of the country were filled with businesspeople who habitually discriminated against those former slaves, which couldn't have been good for business, but which they did because they were carrying around racist beliefs which guided their actions. You could say "those business owners all made the WRONG choice" and, well, ok, but that doesn't really get us anywhere. It's also callous beyond belief to ignore the people that suffered as a result of there being no real consequence for that wrong choice.