cool post. provocative, as it sohlud be. While I persoanlly I do find this another manifestation of fundamentalism and intolenrance in the name of resurgence religion or going back to the roots .However, I do think that the cabbies have the right to deny taking people carrying alcohol, so long they are not infringing on a law. ( I don't know what's the legal stand on a cabbie denying a ride to anybody in Minnesota). This sounds quite like many exclusive Gujrati co-op sousing societies in South Bombay denying tenancy ( and ownership) to non-Gujjus, especially non-vegetarians. There is a conflict in play between 3 key questions in a democratic civil society where right of faith, enterprise and speech are gauranteed : 1) Do people have the right to run their enterprise/property in the manner they wish, even it is exclusionary ? 2) Where does the line of exclusive choice blend into discrimination ? 3)Is it morally correct to be exclusionary while claiming to be practicing the right to freedom (of faith, speech and enterprise)I don't know the answer for any of these. While I intuitively react to such instances as being morally wrong but I think a true liberal society awards its constituent the right to be fundamentalists ! Commentaire déposé le 12.04.2013 à 04:06 par dVJlWulHLWh