I think you do have a right to discriminate based on religion, however you must recall that this is a two way street. If you have this right expect atheists to be discriminated against as well.
I recommend you fight the right to discriminate based on religion based on selfish considerations since most of the worlds employers are religious and Atheists are for example one of the most most disliked “religious” groups in the US.
Also my own position is that all forms of hiring discrimination by private enterprise should be allowed since the market should self correct if the standards by which they discriminate are unfair. It also gives a neat symmetry that Robin Hanson commented is lacking (discriminating against potential employers).
Also my own position is that all forms of hiring discrimination by private enterprise should be allowed since the market should self correct if the standards by which they discriminate are unfair.
Suppose it doesn’t; that is, it turns out that on the long term arbitrarily excluding a certain minority of the populace from consideration isn’t normally a big enough inefficiency to cause significant competitive disadvantage to prejudiced employers. Would that be enough to make you wish for some form of anti-discrimination measure?
(As a follow-up consideration—gur fgngrzrag vf dhvgr boivbhfyl gehr tvira n fhssvpvragyl fznyy zvabevgl.)
I would be in favor of anti-discrimination measures for relativley large groups for which it can be proven that the basis on which they are discriminated against is unfair or untrue.
Its seems plausible to me that both conditions are to a large extent met for most of the groups that are currently protected in this fashion for a certain value of antidiscrim_policy. However I have severe reservations with the current implementation of antidiscrimination policies.
Overall the exact border where “doing something” seems worth while is hard to quantify for me because I would need to compare it to the anti-discrimination measure proposed to see if it was cost effective. But my instinct tends to tell me that such a small inefficency as to be unfixable by market incentives is going to be hard to fix in a cost effective manner by goverment intervention.
I think you do have a right to discriminate based on religion, however you must recall that this is a two way street. If you have this right expect atheists to be discriminated against as well.
I recommend you fight the right to discriminate based on religion based on selfish considerations since most of the worlds employers are religious and Atheists are for example one of the most most disliked “religious” groups in the US.
Also my own position is that all forms of hiring discrimination by private enterprise should be allowed since the market should self correct if the standards by which they discriminate are unfair. It also gives a neat symmetry that Robin Hanson commented is lacking (discriminating against potential employers).
Suppose it doesn’t; that is, it turns out that on the long term arbitrarily excluding a certain minority of the populace from consideration isn’t normally a big enough inefficiency to cause significant competitive disadvantage to prejudiced employers. Would that be enough to make you wish for some form of anti-discrimination measure?
(As a follow-up consideration—gur fgngrzrag vf dhvgr boivbhfyl gehr tvira n fhssvpvragyl fznyy zvabevgl.)
I would be in favor of anti-discrimination measures for relativley large groups for which it can be proven that the basis on which they are discriminated against is unfair or untrue.
Its seems plausible to me that both conditions are to a large extent met for most of the groups that are currently protected in this fashion for a certain value of antidiscrim_policy. However I have severe reservations with the current implementation of antidiscrimination policies.
Overall the exact border where “doing something” seems worth while is hard to quantify for me because I would need to compare it to the anti-discrimination measure proposed to see if it was cost effective. But my instinct tends to tell me that such a small inefficency as to be unfixable by market incentives is going to be hard to fix in a cost effective manner by goverment intervention.