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{{DES | des = Including White Supremacy, Segregation, Racism and Sexism. Libertarians usually think they should have a total freedom to discriminate however they wish. They are wrong. Discriminatory choices which affect markets undercut the assumptions of free markets, and thus destroy market efficiency which libertarians claim to want. In addition to harming others. Our society is a commons, and rampant discrimination is a tragedy of the commons. | show=}} | {{DES | des = Including White Supremacy, Segregation, Racism and Sexism. Libertarians usually think they should have a total freedom to discriminate however they wish. They are wrong. Discriminatory choices which affect markets undercut the assumptions of free markets, and thus destroy market efficiency which libertarians claim to want. In addition to harming others. Our society is a commons, and rampant discrimination is a tragedy of the commons. | show=}} | ||
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| + | Libertarians generally base their ideas of total freedom to discriminate on imaginary ideas of absolute rights, including absolute property rights. But no real rights can be absolute, and rights conflict. All rights have limits, and in the case of businesses (bakeries, for example), they are limited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_accommodations_in_the_United_States public accomodations laws.] Even the public accommodations laws have limits where they conflict with religious organizations. | ||
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