The Bourgeois Era (with Deirdre McCloskey)
10 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics, history of economic thought, liberalism, libertarianism Tags: Deidre McCloskey
The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke?
07 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism Tags: free speech, political correctness
Source: Check Out The Trailer for Anti-Outrage Documentary Can We Take a Joke? – Hit & Run : Reason.com
Our National Apology to Taxpayers
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, liberalism, libertarianism Tags: 2016 Australian federal election
PT Bauer on wealth and power
06 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, labour economics, liberalism, P.T. Bauer, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: wealth and power
Politically Correct Halloween
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, liberalism Tags: crybaby left, free speech, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, political correctness, reactionary left, renegade Left, Twitter left
Deirdre McCloskey on the importance of paying attention to what happened under the jackboot of neoliberalism
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, income redistribution, liberalism, Marxist economics
Too close to the truth for comfort
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, liberalism
HT: John Ansell
Why Not Capitalism? (with Jason Brennan)
03 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in liberalism, libertarianism Tags: capitalism and freedom
George Orwell on pacifism
03 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, liberalism, war and peace Tags: George Orwell, pacifism, World War II
Dissenting opinion in the Fourth Circuit case on transgender students and restrooms
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: moral panic, political correctness, sex discrimination, social friction, transgender people
Until a few months ago, there is universal agreement particularly among women that men should not be allowed into female bathrooms and change rooms. There are relatively few transgender people according to New York at times estimates, and few had heard of them until recently to discriminate against them in long-standing bathroom arrangements.
This is not a case of sex discrimination. It is some people being rather unusual and not fitting into arrangements that suit everybody else. These arrangements regarding bathrooms, change rooms and privacy were crafted with absolutely no malice or hostility towards those who find them inconvenient such as transgender people. You just cannot please everybody.
There are certainly hostility and indeed violence against transgender people. That violence is by a minority full of hate looking for someone to hate on any criteria. There are some people are not nice and who take pleasure in being nasty and at times violent towards other people. That is separate from managing the long-standing human preference for bodily privacy.
Opposing discrimination is about telling people to stop being an arsehole. They have preferences about who they deal with that are appalling and mean. The segregation of bathrooms and changing rooms by sex is about a fundamental human desire for bodily privacy.
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