Freedom of business

[vivster]

binary solo said:
I prefer to live in a society where freedom does not mean legally enabling bigotry in business practices. So I'm glad I live in a society where that is not allowed under the law.

Individual people are free to be bigotted arseholes in their own private lives, but when it comes to the work place and business environment that shit needs to be left at the door, and if you can't leave that shit at the door the law should make you leave that shit at the door.

A really good point that I have a very hard time to find a rubuttal for.

It would help if you would tell me what you would think of a so called "women quota" which would require a certain percentage of employees in a company to be female. That would inadvertently lead to cases where men who are equally or even better qualified than a female applicant to be rejected because of their gender. All in the name of fighting against discrimination against women.

This is a real scenario that has and is been discussed in Germany.