Originally posted by: dna
Originally posted by: firewall
They are refusing their services on the basis of their belief. I can do the same if I were a cab driver just like you can. You are deliberately trying to give this a religious twist.
Taxi services are
regulated.
Here's an excerpt about
Chicago:
Drivers are required to pick up the first or closest passenger they see, and may not refuse a fare anywhere within the city.
Since Taxis are regulated by the city/state, I don't think that the city/state can sanction discrimination based on religion, without violating church and state separation.
What's gonna be next? Refuse to carry any passengers carrying Pork meat?
Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.
/Thread
But, before we go, I was a cab driver for a few, brief, financially unrewarding months back in the day in Media, Pa.
Kaiser Cab. Ya wohl, ich kid you not.
Penna. state regulations, so we were told, prohibit any cabbie from transporting a fare to and from a liquor store (State Store in Pa.), let alone going and buying and transporting said liquor back to them.
I know this because there was an old blind black lady who lived alone who would regularly call in for a cabbie to go buy her weekly spirits for her.
Doing this
simple act of personal kindness made felons of us all, I guess, but not once did
any of us hesitate for even one moment.
No other point save humanity > dogma each and every time. This thread just brought that small but pleasant memory back to mind, is all. One of the dispatchers
seemed sane enough until he began earnestly and energetically telling you about the interstellar rocket he was building in his garage.
Somewhere I have a poem that touches on my Kaiser Cab stint. If I find it, I'll append it, I'm in
that kind of Sunday morning reflective mood.
On the personal scale most folks instinctively accomadate each other, and simply get along. It's only the cosmically overarching BIG IDEAS AND DOGMA, stripped of the human scale, that turn us into murderous enemies of each other.