But the right to refuse objectionable customers and especially objectionable work is extremely important to a society that even pretends to be free and fair.
We lost this right in the "Civil Rights" movement when you ceased to be able to choose who was your customer and had to let everyone in. Everything since has just been attempts to skirt around and loophole it, but when it comes down you are either given a large generalization that does little or simply forced to let it happen.
Except for teenagers, because at the moment "age based discrimination" technically only applies upward. You can absolutely discriminate against the youth with all you want, which is why places can openly post signs banning them. Despite being no less destructive or problematic than your average adult black, who you are forced to allow in.
With the rise of cancelling people's bank accounts because they have the wrong opinions, I can see the need for some kind of guarantee of service, but at the same time, individuals should be able to refuse service or association for any reason.
Maybe a way to ensure that would be to make it so only larger companies, or better yet corporations, have to provide service to everyone (and that includes people guilty of wrongthink). Treating corporations like individuals is the opposite of what should happen.
Or let people serve who they want, but there has to be a guaranteed, government-backed option that people refused elsewhere can use. And there certainly needs to be a clear path for people to create their own infrastructure without being shut down by monopolies and legal bullshit.
None of which will happen, of course, when they can just destroy freedom of association by forcing you to serve and validate their sacred cows.
We lost this right in the "Civil Rights" movement when you ceased to be able to choose who was your customer and had to let everyone in. Everything since has just been attempts to skirt around and loophole it, but when it comes down you are either given a large generalization that does little or simply forced to let it happen.
Except for teenagers, because at the moment "age based discrimination" technically only applies upward. You can absolutely discriminate against the youth with all you want, which is why places can openly post signs banning them. Despite being no less destructive or problematic than your average adult black, who you are forced to allow in.
With the rise of cancelling people's bank accounts because they have the wrong opinions, I can see the need for some kind of guarantee of service, but at the same time, individuals should be able to refuse service or association for any reason.
Maybe a way to ensure that would be to make it so only larger companies, or better yet corporations, have to provide service to everyone (and that includes people guilty of wrongthink). Treating corporations like individuals is the opposite of what should happen.
Or let people serve who they want, but there has to be a guaranteed, government-backed option that people refused elsewhere can use. And there certainly needs to be a clear path for people to create their own infrastructure without being shut down by monopolies and legal bullshit.
None of which will happen, of course, when they can just destroy freedom of association by forcing you to serve and validate their sacred cows.