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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.
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From Webster's:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/Discrimination
Main Entry:
dis·crim·i·na·tion 
Pronunciation: dis-"kri-m&-'nA-sh&n
Function:
noun
1 a : the act of
discriminating b : the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently
2 : the quality or power of finely distinguishing
3 a : the act, practice, or an instance of
discriminating categorically rather than individually
b : prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment <racial
discrimination>
Notice how the racial discrimination aspect comes third.
Read #1 - you can descriminate against peopel carrying alcohol. You can descriminate against people wearing oilers jerseys. I descriminate between small brewer's beer and the swill that is 'Blue'.
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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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The two teired cab system affects cabbies, cab jockeys, dispatchers and passengers.
Allowing a two teired system affects us all.