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[wufwugy]

When you refuse service based on a persons sexual orientation, how is this fundamentally different from refusing service to someone based on the color of their skin, which I recall you saying shouldn't be legal.

I think people who refuse service to clientele based on skin color are very stupid. Even so, they, as long as they are acting only as private citizens, should be allowed that refusal. In return, I, and you, and everybody else, should be allowed to refuse them our business. Then, if my view is the main view, that they are stupid and are wrong to discriminate based on skin color, we get to punish them and watch them either go bankrupt or them come to terms with their actions and make a change that they believe to be their own in order to survive.

[Poopadoop]

Seems to me the human rights issues involved are unrelated to free market principles.

The problem is, some people would rather be cunts and have less money, like the baker. So it's not just a case where you can say 'if they're cunts they'll lose money and will then stop being cunts.' Because they won't.

That said, the gay people could have just found another baker (and I assume they did). It's not like they're right to have a wedding cake (if there is such a thing) was being infringed on. They just happened to run into a fundamentalist cunt. Bad luck, pick up the phone and call someone else.

[oskar]

I think people who refuse service to clientele based on skin color are very stupid. Even so, they, as long as they are acting only as private citizens, should be allowed that refusal. In return, I, and you, and everybody else, should be allowed to refuse them our business. Then, if my view is the main view, that they are stupid and are wrong to discriminate based on skin color, we get to punish them and watch them either go bankrupt or them come to terms with their actions and make a change that they believe to be their own in order to survive.

You must realize that this disproportionately disadvantages minorities... that's why you can't do that anymore. Do I need to break this down? If 10% of the population are A and 90% of the population are B, even if they have the exact same rights to discriminate, section A will be disproportionately affected by a factor of 10.

[wufwugy]

You must realize that this disproportionately disadvantages minorities... that's why you can't do that anymore. Do I need to break this down? If 10% of the population are A and 90% of the population are B, even if they have the exact same rights to discriminate, section A will be disproportionately affected by a factor of 10.

Top mathematician Nassim Taleb would say that the small minority has disproportionate statistical impact (by a tremendous amount). It's called the Minority Rule. Perhaps this is an important reason why allowing people to make their own decisions yields significantly better results for the lowest rungs.

[Savy]

As the arguably second most influential economist of all time once described (Milton Friedman).

I suppose it's not obvious I'm first...

Top mathematician Nassim Taleb would say that the small minority has disproportionate statistical impact (by a tremendous amount). It's called the Minority Rule. Perhaps this is an important reason why allowing people to make their own decisions yields significantly better results for the lowest rungs.

I wish I could create a branch of mathematics that resulted in me being able to disagree with everything without ever saying anything. That shit is genuinely smart. Strangely enough I spoke about this the other night with a friend but couldn't remember his name, only black swan theory shows he's doing his job.

[wufwugy]

I wish I could create a branch of mathematics that resulted in me being able to disagree with everything without ever saying anything.

It's something I quite dislike about him.

Strangely enough I spoke about this the other night with a friend but couldn't remember his name, only black swan theory shows he's doing his job.

I think he's got other stuff going on well. The Minority Rule is compelling. Coke is Kosher after all.

[Savy]

It's something I quite dislike about him.

I think he's got other stuff going on well. The Minority Rule is compelling. Coke is Kosher after all.

I watch TV shows from 40 years ago and realise they're saying more interesting things than I ever do. Worse when you think at least Becker was getting laid.

[oskar]

Top mathematician Nassim Taleb would say that the small minority has disproportionate statistical impact (by a tremendous amount). It's called the Minority Rule. Perhaps this is an important reason why allowing people to make their own decisions yields significantly better results for the lowest rungs.

Knock yourself out, but whatever the argument is, it will have to come down to special pleading because once again it's something that is happening to women in places like saudi arabia, and it has happend in the US before the civil rights movement.
So not only are you asserting it with no evidence, you are asserting it in the face of evidence to the contrary. I believe we've done this before.

[wufwugy]

Knock yourself out, but whatever the argument is, it will have to come down to special pleading because once again it's something that is happening to women in places like saudi arabia, and it has happend in the US before the civil rights movement.
So not only are you asserting it with no evidence, you are asserting it in the face of evidence to the contrary. I believe we've done this before.

If you would like to explain more thoroughly, please do. Be sure to remember that a subset of the whole != whole set