RE: Freedom Of Religion: The Problem with the Manifestation of Belief
I think the real problem is actually the reverse of how most people are looking at it. We shouldn't be trying to decide about whether or not to give exemptions to discrimination laws. (Just hear me out) We should just eliminate discrimination laws altogether. If people want to discriminate against other people (as long as they are not breaking any other laws of course) let them! If they do so unwisely, the market will punish them accordingly. If someone doesn't bake a cake for someone, they lose out on business. If someone doesn't hire women, they will miss out on all the benefits of having women working there and someone who does hire women will out compete them. Discrimination is a self solving problem. And making it illegal is unenforceable anyway. There will always be bigotry in the world just like there will always be jerks, psychopaths and every other degenerate group. And we should treat them all the same, ignore them and don't do business with them.
I see what you mean BUT on the flip... people can be bloody nasty and they should know it's SO unacceptable that there's a clear and legal consequence. A lot of woman have ACCEPTED less for fear of losing their job.. people suffer a lot in silence and people get away with discrimination if it benefits them eg wages, businesses. When you say 'as long as they aren't breaking the law' .. isn't that the point? That there needs to be clear lines about where it becomes harmful. Believe all you like... but seriously there's a line between discrimatory BELIEF and discriminatory ACTION.
Fuck years of woman being disadvantaged in the workplace... it's still going on.. without those laws woman would be even WORSE off. Teachers who go off on maternity leave here can get 7 years and their job is held for them. What employer would do that unless it's regulated? Yep.. there's always going to be jerks which is exactly why we need laws to stop us going back to the 1950s.
Im an idealist... and I wish I.could trust society to unfuck itself... but I don't think.it can without a whole heap of crew coming together and saying yep.. this is the law that's gonna protect crew the most.
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