05-22-2010, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by JCL
I would have thought that the civil rights act (and the disabled persons act) helps to establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty for all citizens. In contrast, not supporting the need for it is proposing that there would be more tranquility, liberty, etc, without the laws in place. I personally don't think that would happen. That was why I called him naive, and not a racist.
Interested in all the sports analogies that have been offered up, but I am not sure why they are focusing on employees, when the focus should be on customers. It isn't about whether there are enough black or white players in a league, but rather whether black fans or white fans should pay different ticket prices to attend such games, based only on the colour of their skin. That gets back to the businessman analogy. Sure, it may be a stupid policy for that business. But if they did it, would you have more tranquility in society? I think not. The laws send a signal about what is right, what is expected, because you can't expect hundreds of millions of people to think the same way.
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"Libertarians" believe that the g is interfering and holding them back, and somehow stopping them from fulfilling their destiny. They claim that all would be better off if everyone believed what they believe.
But I believe that they are blinded by the false notion that things used to be so much better back when... ...when in fact that is a lie.
The reality of “back then” was that many suffered and were inconvenienced at the whim of the rich who ran roughshod over the entire population. They were the ones who made the laws and they were the one who ignored those same laws with impunity.
Now, If they were all mountain men who each had 100,000 acres of their own to hunt and survive on and did not see another human but once in a blue moon, that's one thing; but they live in a community, a state, a country with three hundred million other souls and a world with 6 billion and the sooner they realize that their selfish thoughts and concerns have to be made subservient to the "will of the people," and to “what is best for most people,” the sooner we will all be better off.
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