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To: TigerPaw who wrote (9681)	1/24/2006 6:10:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541490

History and experience say that you are wrong. They say no such thing. No one has experience of a libertarian regime in this area with a general social climate like what we have to day. Outside the south in the US, or in other countries, including ones that didn't have laws like our civil rights law of 1964, the experience was often very different than it was in the South in the US before the 1964 law and other laws that preceded or followed it. There is very little reason to think that most people, or even a significant minority of business owners would act the same way today. Esp. since it would be against their own interest to do so. You can find examples of tons of things in history. That doesn't mean that history says that everything will be the same in different social, political, and cultural circumstances if the laws where the same. An in any case the laws wouldn't be the same. You wouldn't have the Jim Crow laws requiring discrimination. People will react emotionally and not rationally. In many cases yes. And in many cases that emotional reaction will be very negative to establishments that are racially exclusive. It's always easier to pick a fight than it is to ignore one. And so people will pick a fight with establishments that do exclude people based on racial criteria, protesting and boycotting them. Tim