Thursday, April 28, 2005

The Socratic Method

Over at Corrente, they had a fun mental exercise. Since we have some BSC pharmacists refusing to sell morning after pills, and other birth control measures, how can we extend that thinking for other things we buy?

--"If I still worked in the public library, could I use my conscience to avoid checking out Republican and other fascist-minded books to the would-be-deluded public? Seems to me I could. And would the Patriot Act apply to the lists of books not checked out?"

--"can policemen ticket you, or avoid doing so, based on bumper stickers?"

--"I'm sorry, sir. I cannot sell you Ms. Coulter's Treason. In fact, by your intent to buy this book, I must follow my conscience and report you to the FBI, under terms of the Patriot Act, as accomplice to terrorism after the fact, given Ms. Coulter's very public calls for mass murder of members of identifiably American organizations and groups."

--"No, Mr. Chubby Person, you may not have fries with that."

--"I looked at the in-house tape of you in aisle five, and frankly you don't look diabetic to me."

--"This Bud is not for you."

--"The idea of your grandmother wearing a diaper disgusts me. Let her walk around naked."

--"Don't even think about buying lubricant here, perv-boy."

--"Why would you be buying Night Time Cold Medicine at three o'clock in the afternoon? Do I look stupid?"

--"Yes, I realize you ordered a BigMac but I'm a vegetarian. Eating meat is wrong."

--"...if a garbageman who was morally opposed to birth control found a used condom in your trash can could he henceforth refuse to pick up your refuse?"

--"...can we refuse to pay taxes based on our personal belief that GW & Co. have completely fucked up the entire country, and would just squander the money?"

Very amusing. I wonder what things I could come up with to refuse doing based on my "beliefs". I'd like to say that working more than 8 hours a week violates my beliefs, but I'm not sure my employer would go for that.

I know.. working for less than 300 grand a year is abhorrant to my religion.

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