Cynic wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 21:42:24 +0100, Alex Heney
> wrote:
>
>>> You would have to show that looking at pictures of *any* group of
>>> people is likely to increase the chance of a person attacking a member
>>> of that group.
>
>> I would have to show nothing at all. Why do you think I might have to?
>
> Because that is the only justification for banning a person from
> carrying such people in a taxi.
>
>> And I do not for one moment believe that looking at such pictures is
>> going to increase the chance of such an attack.
>
>> But I *do* believe that the people who would choose to look at such
>> pictures are *on average* people who are more likely to do so.
>
> Only in the same way that men who look at indecent pictures of women
> are more likely to attack women than people who do not look at such
> images. If that would not justify prohibiting a person from being a
> taxi driver, then nor should looking at other types of image.
>
Like it or not, and you probably won't, earlier this year a taxi company
here made a point of *offering* a female driver for a late-evening
pick-up, once they had identified that the sole passenger would be female.
It shocked me. I'm not sure what it did for the morale of their male
taxi drivers..
Things are changing ..and not for the better.
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Sue |