Pro: a Business Owner Should Be Able to Hire or Fire Anyone Without Interference from the Government.

PRO: A business owner should be able to hire or fire anyone without interference from the government.

Survival of the fittest. This has been a long standing phrase our lives, our human progress and even our government has been built upon. From the beginning with our freedom fighters of the early Continental Armies to our modern day successful business enterprises, it has been forever viewed as the “right man for the right job.” Regardless of sex, race, religious views, etc., the government shouldn’t be allowed to tell us or interfere with who we must hire and who we can or can’t fire in our own businesses.

The government has the ability to tell us whom we can and can’t hire / fire. This is wrong. Diversity is a very strong, and often times overused, word dictating what businesses should look like. Graham (2012) explained, “It doesn’t pay to discriminate. It does pay to hire the best for the job, regardless of that person’s personal life and views.” America wasn’t founded on being fair and making everyone like each other, it was founded on principles of freedom and those fighting for it doing so in a position that helped the overall objective. Not everyone was a General during the American Revolution because not everyone had the ability to perform at the level of a General. Business should be run the same way. The government shouldn’t be allowed to tell a local shop owner that they need to hire someone based on race or sex just to make things fair. If that said person can’t perform the duties that the local shop requires then that shop should have the right to hire whomever they see fit to work. Who cares about diversity? Who cares about what color your skin is, what tattoos you have, or what reproductive organ you possess? If a shop owner doesn’t like a particular person because of any discriminatory factor, that shop owner should have the right to make a hire / fire decision based on the fact that it’s their business and without government...