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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
dis‧crim‧i‧na‧tion [di-skrim-uh-ney-shuh n]
treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.
Discrimination applies to stereotyping a group of people (such as Muslims should not be cab drivers) not on the actions of those people (such as the decision to consume alcoholic beverages).
You can't discriminate based on actions. (I think there is an echo in here) I am pretty sure the word discriminate is being thrown around pretty literally due to lack of a better term.
I can not draw parallels between veganism and religious beliefs (again, this has already been addressed pages ago). I don't eat meat, so if I waited in line at a restaurant, and I get my order and it had meat in it. Would I walk to the back of the line and wait again, or do I just order again? If a cab was at the front of the line, and the next passenger had something that couldn't fit in the cab, should the cab go back to the end of the line? I don't think it makes much sense to not allow the cab to just take the next available fair - regardless of the motives for doing so. Again, as you will see on pages 1 through 12, it does not affect anyone, so what's the problem?!?!?!?
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What you don't understand is that the definition of discrimination you put doesn't work with what you are arguing. The city is not making a distinction of any sort you are, you are saying they should make a special distinction based on the religion of the cab drivers. That's discrimination read your own definition. Also that last argument doesn't work at all. The cab is the place of business not the customer the example you gave discusses the customer having a problem with the business.
The common policy is that if you refuse the fare you go back to the end of the line...