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The legal one :-) Which is if a company's procedures though applied to all has a worse effect on a certain race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, disabled a

• golergka 9y ago
  > The legal one :-) Well, I'm not that interested in what is legal and what is not - I'm more curious about how do we arrive at the conclusions at what is ought to be legal or not. > It can be legal discrimination eg a fire fighter being abele to lift a certain weight. I think we can safely say that women, on average, are not as capable at such physical tests as men. And yet, we, as a society, see this kind of indirect discrimination as completely logical and do not see this kind of discrimination as evil. If we were to derive a general rule from this example, what this rule would look like? And how does this rule differ from other kinds of indirect discrimination that you define as bad?
  • walshemj 9y ago
    Your getting close to sealioning here but I will bite. You need to have an "objective justification" if the job really needs you to be able to lift a 210lb person on your back and carry them down a ladder