ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen's (KLR) account of the wrongfulness of discrimination and introduces four possible causal explanations of the online dating. It also considers how KLR might respond to this objection before finally considering whether an alternative rights-based account of the wrongfulness of discrimination, such as the one provided by Sophia Moreau, can better capture ordinary intuition. A preliminary question is whether the choice of one's romantic partner is the kind of choice that could count as discriminatory. Moreau is concerned with legal rather than moral rights, but there is no reason to think that the same thoughts cannot be extended to apply to morality. Moreau discusses how discrimination may be permissible for some reasons and not others in the context of hiring: Consider, for instance, a basic case of indirect discrimination, such as the adoption by an English tearoom of a policy that waiters must speak only English at all times while on the job.
