[Rhodes22-list] Politics - The Camel's Nose Is Well Inside The Tent

[Herb Parsons]

Brad,

One might get the idea that you have ... issues ... with Dave. Is there a secret handshake for that club?

Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
1976 O'Day 25
Lake Grapevine, N TX

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1971 Coronado 35
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast 

>>> flybrad at gmail.com 10/26/2006 9:40:58 pm >>>
Hank,

I caught Dave's post about doctors just before leaving for bed.  If my wife,
a victim of the Cultural Revolution in China, read that last post of his she
would jump through cyberspace and strangle the living out of him for such a
response.

Dave, go live in state controlled society somewhere for a few years and get
back to me on your ideas about doctors. I know, I know, you don't see the
difference in the marketplace between cabbies and doctors.  I'm convinced
you don't believe in markets anyway.

Good night, ya'll.

Brad


On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> As I understand it, the RU84 (did I get that right) is a morning after
> contraceptive.  Hardly a treatment for a serious medical condition.  Would
> you extend your line of reasoning to the point that all OB/GYN doctors
> must
> perform abortions?  The type of treatments that the pharmacists are
> refusing
> to treat or support are these same type of convenience treatments, not
> those
> requiring treatment for a detrimental disease.
>
> Hank
>
> On 10/26/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hank,
> >
> > As you point out, there's a lot to be said for letting you decide how
> > to  run
> > your business, but clearly, that can be taken too far.  Society
> > has  decided,
> > for better or worse, that you can't discriminate based on race,
> > color,  sex,
> > religious convictions, physical handicaps, sexual orientation, and
> > the  list
> > may go on.  We can discuss the reasonableness of those laws, but
> they  are
> > generally accepted laws.   All we need is for a guy like  Rummy to step
> > forward
> > and claim that drunkeness is part of his religious  conviction and
> there's
> > a
> > case against the hapless Somali cab driver he wants to  hit, and I
> suspect
> > Rummy
> > would win big time (certainly by Somali cab driver  standards).
> >
> > >From my perspective, Moslem cab drivers are a zit to
> this  problem.  The
> > real
> > problem is born again Christian doctors and pharmacists  that deny
> > service.
> > They are licensed to be in business by the public,  they are tightly
> > regulated
> > and they benefit greatly from that regulation  and licensing.  I think
> is
> > reasonable to expect them to provide the service  they have represented
> > they
> > would provide, without discrimination.  If a  person were in physical
> > distress, I
> > think it's unreasonable that they be denied  service because the medical
> > practitioner decided the person was a "good person"  or "bad person", or
> > the
> > disease or affliction at issue was gods revenge, or any  other hare
> > brained reason.
> > If they want to pass judgement on people,  diseases, conditions, and/or
> > approved drugs they should be  philosophers or ethicists; if they want
> to
> > practice
> > medicine they should be  doctors or pharmacists.  The individual has a
> > choice,
> > but having made that  choice and represented that they would provide a
> > service (which is an  implicit part of their licensing) they are
> committed
> > to
> > provide the service  without discrimination to the best of their
> ability.
> >
> > I see the whole issue as just another kind of discrimination based on
> > religious convictions.
> >
> > Just my opinion.
> >
> > Dave
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