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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] [i]1400 quatloos on this topic/thread not being finished.[/i] Before launching into a diatribe that no one will bother to read, I would point out maybe the irony/futility of fighting fundamentalism with fundamentalism. So I do sort of get the question of scale problem regarding God's Law and secular Law. It's just that whereas the people who live here in the USofA have more or less agreed to live by US law, they have a multitude of different ideas regarding God's Law and which god(s) or goddess(es) may be applicable/silly. Which is to say that separating Church and State is a good idea so long as you believe that people having different beliefs and/or values than your own is A) OK or even B) a pretty cool idea. I'll submit a flimsily pertinent scenario which won't win me any points or convince anyone, but maybe amuses: [QUOTE]I am a vegetarian. I have been for coming up on 16 years. I'm not one of the people who make you feel shit for having a burger, but if you asked me about it and genuinely wanted to know, I would tell you that I happen to believe that the world would probably be a better place if people ate certainly less and possibly even no meat. I think the meat industry is corrupt, offensive and more or less a direct affront to all the things that otherwise make humanity special and beautiful. (Before you start flinging your vitriol, I am stating my personal beliefs, which is, precisely the point I'm getting to.) So I worked as a runner at a post-production house up in the city. Part of this job was ordering food for the producers/directors/editors. And sometimes they ordered meat. Often, even. They liked meat. I guess so do a lot of people. Now I could have changed all their orders to salads or potatoes or whatever, but I understood that even though I held these personal beliefs about meat, that what I agreed to do as part of my job was to order meat dishes. And so I did it. For a while. (Actually the job sort of sucked otherwise and the opportunities to play with their neato toys were far fewer than I'd been promised and anyway I quit)[/QUOTE]And so we're clear, I have approximately ZERO interest in debating vegetarianism or the ethics of animal politics here. I'm just using this as an example of a fervent personal belief that could interfere in one's capacity to do one's job and that it's each persons personal choice about whether or not their beliefs will let them do that job. Which is to say that if a person's personal beliefs (no matter how celestial or sacrosanct their origin) interfere in their capacity to do that job, then maybe they should have a different job. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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