Taxi's and Target
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Well I just went off about being fare to muslims in terms of them not ALL being terrorists but I thought it'd be fair to express my complete opposite feelings on these two issues:
1st:
The HUGE majority of all taxi's down here in the twin cities are driven by Somlians (who are, on the whole, Muslim). For one, they nearly hit me every day, and they are complete assholes to whoever get in the car. It's like they feel some entitlement above and beyond.
That being said, its well known that many of them will NOT give drunk people rides, becuase they want the higher fare to the airport. Beyond that, they claim its thier religious right to refuse service if somebody has alcohol on them (and they use this as a justification to get higher rates). An example of this:
"Commission Chairman Jack Lanners talked about an e-mail he received from a parent who was riding home from the airport with two children.
The parent casually mentioned he had wine in his luggage "and he was deposited on the street somewhere in the dark of night," Lanners said. "That's a safety issue."
The Airport Commission FINALLY issued a policy that goes in to effect next month in which a taxi driver who refuses service will be placed on 30 day suspension, with the second offense losing thier taxi license.
I don't get it? What the fuck are we giving them jobs for as taxi drivers if they won't perform the tasks associated with them?
http://www.startribune.com/1557/story/1123808.html
2nd:
I'm sure many of you heard about the bacon thing at target, the same logic applies.
What the fuck? Seriously?
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i agree that using your faith like that is BS
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amicheze;164726 wrote:
There's nothing wrong with being religious, but when a person twists it around to use for their own selfish purposes, I kind of wish they would randomly get struck by lightning.even belonging to a religion is using it for "selfish" reasons. There is no religion without people using it.
*selfish does not have negative conotations: meaning only "For ones self"
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well i dont agree with either of the previous posts, I am a lutheran because i believe in the lutheran docterine, not because i gain somthing from being lutheran. I dont see how belonging to a particular religous denomination would be percieved as "selfish". And i think that religion does have a place in the workplace, for example most religions hold honesty in high regard, honesty in the work place is a good thing....
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I'm surprised Catholics haven't returned fire by refusing to sell birth control products because the church's stance is abstinence, period. <-- this is a joke, haha
Having good moral values is one thing. If you can't perform a duty you were hired to do because of a religious decision or faith issue the employer should be able to fire you no questions asked. They were hired to do a job and the duties it entailed. If they can't or refuse to do them for whatever reason they should be fired. Not knocking their rights, just supporting the rights of their employers to have employees that do what they were hired to do.
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I'm still unclear on why there is an increase in Somalian population. I know the vietnamese population are over here due to service during the war, like my dad. I don't mean to offend anyone, but Somalians are probably the dumbest people I have ever encounter, not to mention they have no commonsense, and selfishness. I don't know how big the Somalian population is in the F-M area, but there are a shit load of them within Minneapolis and St.Paul area(not including the suburbs). I have to deal with them almost everyday, specially near Lake st. in Minneapolis. They don't care about anyone on the road, not to mention they can't drive for shit. 5p.m. busiest time for traffic, I drive down cedar, two cars takes up two lanes, sitting there talking. As people honks, they wave and tell us to drive around onto on-coming traffic. They bring nothing beneficial toward our economy and society except an increase in crime rate.
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Sweet-WRX-Lovin;164951 wrote:
I'm surprised Catholics haven't returned fire by refusing to sell birth control products because the church's stance is abstinence, period. <-- this is a joke, hahaHaving good moral values is one thing. If you can't perform a duty you were hired to do because of a religious decision or faith issue the employer should be able to fire you no questions asked. They were hired to do a job and the duties it entailed. If they can't or refuse to do them for whatever reason they should be fired. Not knocking their rights, just supporting the rights of their employers to have employees that do what they were hired to do.
How about this, Its 1942, you are a young German officer in the army. You are working at your job in Auschwitz, your orders are to kill the room full of Jews next to you, all you have to do is pull the lever that will release the gas. Do you do or your job? Or follow what your religon tells you? This is just an old school example, but there are a ton of possibilities. What if someone at your work place tells you to fuck over a customer? You are a mechanic and your employer tells you to mess with a customers car? Then what? You are hired to obey your boss.. what do you do?
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GarageAlchemist;164942 wrote:
well i dont agree with either of the previous posts, I am a lutheran because i believe in the lutheran docterine, not because i gain somthing from being lutheran. I dont see how belonging to a particular religous denomination would be percieved as "selfish". And i think that religion does have a place in the workplace, for example most religions hold honesty in high regard, honesty in the work place is a good thing....did you join the lutherans for your own reasons? then you did it to benefit yourself. there for: selfish.
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MethodlesS;164973 wrote:
did you join the lutherans for your own reasons? then you did it to benefit yourself. there for: selfish.your way off topic here.......there is no correlation that if your religious your selfish. You can argue the same thing if your not religious your selfish also. This can be twisted into anyway you want.......
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GarageAlchemist;164969 wrote:
How about this, Its 1942, you are a young German officer in the army. You are working at your job in Auschwitz, your orders are to kill the room full of Jews next to you, all you have to do is pull the lever that will release the gas. Do you do or your job? Or follow what your religon tells you? This is just an old school example, but there are a ton of possibilities. What if someone at your work place tells you to fuck over a customer? You are a mechanic and your employer tells you to mess with a customers car? Then what? You are hired to obey your boss.. what do you do?Those are not good examples at all. Killing is illegal. You are hired to obey your boss within the confines of the law. A cashier not ringing you out because you have pork does not violate any laws of the land and that cashier should have disciplinary action taken.
If that ever happened to me at Target I would leave everything right there and walk out. I will NOT put up with that bullshit.
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Actually, killing civilians is a war crime. Therefore, illegal.
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