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If anybody was thinking of dismissing their decision off-hand, consider these: Pharmacists refusing to sell the morning-after pill Refusing to sell com
by jimworm 14y ago
If anybody was thinking of dismissing their decision off-hand, consider these:
Pharmacists refusing to sell the morning-after pill
Refusing to sell computer equipment to HFT firms
Banning a child not vaccinated against polio from a swimming pool
Cutting off the water supply to your local homeopathy practitioner
The world is full of petty tyrants. Tyranny of the majority via the law may not be ideal, but it might be the best we can hope for.
- pessimizer 14y agoPharmacists are state licensed, and granted special privileges based on that license; they don't get to be the final say about what they will or won't do. I don't see a problem with the other three. In fact, the third I actively encourage.
- CamperBob2 14y agoPharmacists are state licensed, and granted special privileges based on that license; they don't get to be the final say about what they will or won't do. You would think so, but remember that in the US, religion is the third rail of politics. Play the Jeebus card, and you can dodge almost all of the other rules and regulations in polite society. (See http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Judge-Washington-state-cannot-force-pharmacies-3352346.php http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Judge-Washington-stat... ).