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Maybestring | 7 years ago

They should. Allowing large commercial entities to facilitilate discrimination and only going after individual landlords would be an extremely inefficient use of limited resources.

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AdamM12|7 years ago

The inefficiency of the process shouldn't be a deciding factor. Should be the justness of it. Facebook isn't discriminating. We don't punish shipping companies when their resources are used for drug smuggling. We punish the individuals involved in the illicit act.

edit: Not entirely sure how arguing that our system should be a just one more so than one that goes after what is easiest is getting down voted so much but ok.

Hermitian909|7 years ago

If your edit is in earnest it's because your comment comes off as naive. Inefficiency _must_ be one of several deciding factors because our resources are limited.

Tying resources up in a maximally just be deeply inefficient process prevents us from dealing with other problems of injustice for whom the solution requires more resources. The world _requires_ us to consider factors other than maximal justice in individual cases if we are to maximize justice in a broader societal context.

GordonS|7 years ago

> Facebook isn't discriminating

This feels like a technicality - Facebook is overtly enabling, perhaps even encouraging discrimination.

AdamM12|7 years ago

Facebook isn't a party to a potential rental contract or contract to sale. They aren't in a position to deny someone housing.