(April 25, 2014 at 8:07 pm)Heywood Wrote: When you go to a job interview and the job is given to someone else....guess what....you were discriminated against.
There is no freedom from discrimination. There is only freedom not to be discriminated against in a way that the government decides you should be free from. This "freedom" always comes at the expense of someone elses freedom.
Personally I believe the state should provide hospitals and emergency care and it should be a condition of employment that doctors who work there treat anyone who walks through the door.
However if someone wants to become a doctor and only treat mexicans why should we deny them the freedom to do that?
People do have the right not to be discriminated against for such things as race, gender, and religion as long as they are not pertinate to the task or service at hand. I mean, one should be allowed to not hire a black man as an actor if you are looking for someone to play the part of Ronald Reagan in a movie. Sexual orientation is one of these attributes for which people have a right not to be discriminated.
When you do something such as run a business or become a doctor, you are leaving the realm where individual freedoms reign and into a social contract of sorts, because offering goods and services is a social construct, not an individual one. If you wish to refrain from providing goods and services to certain people, that is your right, but only if you refrain from providing goods and services to all people.
You don't want to sell cakes to gay people? Then don't sell cakes.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
