IF you believe the “owner” of a business is in fact the rightful owner Merit’s argument holds up. Say it’s my place. A jazz bar perhaps, I think how the bar operates should be up to me. Maybe I only want to serve one legged gay senior citizens. Maybe I don’t want to serve someone because **** him I don’t need a reason. I’m sympathetic to that reasoning.
I do not think the profit motive will solve discrimination problems but to me freedom means the right to discriminate.
In the antebellum and Jim Crow south the laws didn’t only allow discrimination they made desegregation illegal so that example is NOT a Libertarian economy.
It’s not perfect but there’s an appealing logic to what Merit is saying. Basically, if it’s your business you should be able to do what ever the **** you want with it.
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