(July 24, 2015 at 3:42 am)paulpablo Wrote:(July 22, 2015 at 8:48 pm)ignoramus Wrote: To change the subject slightly. It was on the news not that long ago about a blind woman in a restaurant with her seeing eye dog. She was basically forced to leave. They cited health laws.
The shop owner was not fined. It is a fine line indeed.
That's crazy, I was on a security guard induction 2 days ago where they were talking about laws and I remember them saying a shop can get into trouble for not allowing guide dogs into its building, I don't know about restaurants though.
Laws vary from one country to the next. In the U.S., one could get into serious trouble for refusing to allow a guide dog into a restaurant. But this story is from Australia, and I do not know what the law is there for such things. But I think that guide dogs should be allowed in every public space, provided that they behave appropriately. (And I have never seen a guide dog behave inappropriately.)
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— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
