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sdbest said:
It's the employer's private company, their private property, why shouldn't he or she get to discriminate on any grounds he or she chooses.
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Any way they choose that doesn't remove rights from the citizens. By allowing corporations to monopolize the market on healthcare, individuals are robbed of independent healthcare choices, and labor unions and individuals are robbed of being able to affect or be served by the market. You are confusing Libertarianism with Mercantilism or something.
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sdbest said:
Isn't this the kind of freedom you champion?
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No, its a perverted concoction of the type of freedom I champion, and it isn't freedom, its actually a removal of individual freedom because it opens the door to illegitimately based descrimination.
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sdbest said:
It's not any particular employer's problem that you have to work. Their problem is to exercise their personal freedom to serve their own needs. They don't have any responsibility for you do they?
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The only responsibility they have is to respect the rights of individuals. You seem to think libertarianism implies no regulation of the market, which is quite untrue. It means regulation of and only up to the defense of individual rights for all who partake in the market. When corporations hold more than half the market share of insurance policies, they dictate the market. Its called monopoly. Libertarians (usually) are split on views of monopoly for various reasons, but I and many others, are anti-monopoly.
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sdbest said:
Are you proposing that we--whoever "we" are--stop corporations from dominating the market? They're merely exercising their property rights. And, all corporations are made up of people.
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Being made up of people, and being an individual with rights is two different things. Corporation is a tool for diluting, degrading and minimalizing individual responsibility.
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Incorporation Debate
My most recognized quote on this topic for expressing what I mean:
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce