I must agree with Sarah when she says, “Just that no matter how small the minority, they're on their own? Sorry, I don't accept that as just.”
Sarah is absolutely correct.
There must exist a mechanism by which to protect the individual rights of these minorities, especially the smallest and most vulnerable among them. That being the case, I cannot think of a smaller and more vulnerable minority than the single lone individual person. The individual is truly the smallest and most vulnerable minority. So it is incumbent upon us all to support any and all government actions that protect that person’s individual rights from any coercive discrimination by the majority. Majority discrimination enforced by law ; such as telling a man who he must associate with, who he must work for, who he must hire or fire, who he must do business with, ect. This type of coercion, if left unchecked will quickly spread beyond this smallest of minorities business life, and before you know it, it will seep into his personal life as well.
There are those that feel they have the right to discriminate against the individual’s personal preferences and choices because it does not meet their own, or some so-called: “societies”. These people take this position because they have no respect for minority rights; this is intolerable and a gross injustice that the government has the obligation to intervene in. Sarah and I understand that in order to protect minority rights from injustice and coercion we must start with the smallest of them, and from there work our way up.
Like Sarah, I despise institutionalized discrimination, especially when it is aimed at our weakest and most vulnerable; the individual.
George
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