Do post your ideas, even if there isn't a lot of discussion.
I believe that personal beliefs should be separated from business. That isn't to say you shouldn't act ethically, or live your life according to your beliefs. But you shouldn't become a pharmacist if you're not going to dispense birth control because of YOUR personal religious beliefs.
In the same vein, you shouldn't refuse an Eskimo service because of your beliefs. If you deeply hate a certain type of person, maybe you should reconsider a job which might put you into contact with them.
It hurts your business, yes, but prejudice hurts culture at large, and it harms that individual as well (their sense of worth, identity within the culture, etc, etc).
And even if you accept revenge on Eskimos as your life's mission, and still go into business where you're dealing with people, shouldn't you honor your opponent by serving others of their kind, while hunting only that specific Eskimo down, who killed your father? It seems a much more noble undertaking.
Well, i really meant the eskimo example in a more broad sense, so i could have chosen a better situation. Ok, say the Great Eskimo Council convened and, for some reason, elected to kill my old man. There, now i'm justified in having a dislike for all eskimos, for it is well known that all eskimos are part of the Great Eskimo Council
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What if you're selling a service that the "eskimo" can't access otherwise?
I think it really "poisons" (I'm big into "s this morning..) a whole community/society if people start picking and choosing who they served based on something like ethnicity/race/religion. I think you're basing this too far in theory. In practice, you'd be walking around finding "select clientele only" or "no eskimos" signs in windows. I would rather swallow my dislike for a group of people than exist in that sort of culture of fear and hatred.
I'm still half asleep. Blame that if I've made no sense.
please forgive errors, I know there must be some in therelaura_abroadNovember 20 2004, 05:58:15 UTC
If it's really an entire people that came up with this judgment, you're justified in hating all of them. But what about the children too young to know what was going on, the dissenters (the people who thought he was innocent, the people who objected due to moral or religious reasons, etc), or subsequent generations who didn't have anything to do with the original judgment?
If you're examining it from a business's pro-profits perspective, it causes more harm in the long run to refuse one person, because you'd get sued for discrimination, boycotted by the Council and their sympathizers, etc.
is that really a responsibility of a business?Because a business is formed, owned, and run by people, those people have a duty to society and culture. Beyond that, the business is there to serve, and the consumer is there to consume; I think the entity of the business should be neutral
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I believe that personal beliefs should be separated from business. That isn't to say you shouldn't act ethically, or live your life according to your beliefs. But you shouldn't become a pharmacist if you're not going to dispense birth control because of YOUR personal religious beliefs.
In the same vein, you shouldn't refuse an Eskimo service because of your beliefs. If you deeply hate a certain type of person, maybe you should reconsider a job which might put you into contact with them.
It hurts your business, yes, but prejudice hurts culture at large, and it harms that individual as well (their sense of worth, identity within the culture, etc, etc).
And even if you accept revenge on Eskimos as your life's mission, and still go into business where you're dealing with people, shouldn't you honor your opponent by serving others of their kind, while hunting only that specific Eskimo down, who killed your father? It seems a much more noble undertaking.
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I think it really "poisons" (I'm big into "s this morning..) a whole community/society if people start picking and choosing who they served based on something like ethnicity/race/religion. I think you're basing this too far in theory. In practice, you'd be walking around finding "select clientele only" or "no eskimos" signs in windows. I would rather swallow my dislike for a group of people than exist in that sort of culture of fear and hatred.
I'm still half asleep. Blame that if I've made no sense.
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If you're examining it from a business's pro-profits perspective, it causes more harm in the long run to refuse one person, because you'd get sued for discrimination, boycotted by the Council and their sympathizers, etc.
is that really a responsibility of a business?Because a business is formed, owned, and run by people, those people have a duty to society and culture. Beyond that, the business is there to serve, and the consumer is there to consume; I think the entity of the business should be neutral ( ... )
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