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[blaseblasphemener]

[mises]

[Suwon23]

mises: very good points. I guess I was a little vague (and maybe mentioning Ayn Rand is like a mild form of Godwin's Law). I was talking about government enforcement of anti-discrimination laws. As you point out, discrimination is sometimes a conscious government policy, with slavery being a perfect example. But there's no doubt that, say, white Alabamans in the 1950s didn't need any government approval to treat blacks unfairly. That's an example of a problem that did "just happen" as you say, meaning that the discrimination was fueled by private individuals not government policy. Top-down solutions were needed to fix the problem (of course, as you point out, there is still plenty of tension in Canada and the US).

My point was that the idea of government-led social engineering (examples include equal time for girls' pep rallies) is not automatically a bad thing, though it can be taken too far. I was responding to an earlier statement which (if I read it correctly) claimed that any sort of interference by the government in matters that should ideally be fixed on the private level is inappropriate.

Thanks for responding, though. You forced me to think about my opinions more thoroughly.

[mises]