Agreed again.
I (and I believe most people) condemn discrimination based on arbitrary characteristics such as race, gender, etc. because I believe it is morally wrong and destructive, both to those who practice it and to those against whom it is practiced, and, whether I am selling a home, running a business or hiring an employee...practicing discrimination is economically stupid.
Yet for all of those reasons that we condemn discrimination, one would assume that most recognize that legal prohibitions on it would be unnecessary.
Yet so many people on here take what I see as a paternalistic view that we must outlaw private discrimination (and it is private...locating your home or business on a public street or selling to the public does not make one a public entity...which is why the Civil Rights Act and related federal legsilation was based on the Commerce Clause and not the 14th Amendment (which would have authorized Congressional legislation prohibiting discrimination by states... Congess recognized that they were regulating private property and private conduct by non-state actors). I have to assume that these people:
(1) have a very low opinion of their fellow Americans and believe that, unless discrimination is legally prohibited, it will thrive...either because substantial numbers of their fellow Americans are incapable of seeing the immorality of discrimination (in which case, it must be asked...is this whole representative government thing really capable of working?) OR because they believe their fellow Americans are immoral...OR
(2) because they themselves believe that the downside to practicing discrimination will not outweigh any benefits people derive from it and therefore, again, discrimination will thrive