RE: US Postal Service discriminates against Atheists.
October 10, 2014 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2014 at 2:16 pm by Napoléon.)
(October 10, 2014 at 10:01 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Nowhere did I say people should be fine with it. It is absolutely outrageous behavior.
My point was that we already know that a lot of people trust atheists less than convicted rapists. So why be surprised when this happens? And why do it in the first place? So we can feel persecuted when the very thing we knew was going to happen, happens?
You're contradicting yourself. You say "Nowhere did I say people should be fine with it.", but your later paragraph just goes against that completely.
Replace atheists with black people. Or Jewish people. I'm sure you wouldn't be using the line "so we can feel persecuted when the very thing we knew was going to happen, happens?" then.
Why do it in the first place? Because they have a right to. They also have a right to feel persecuted and a right to tell people about it. If it was happening to Jewish people, or Black people, or Chinese people, I bet you'd have a completely different attitude.
Quote:It's not okay either way
Exactly. It's not okay. So what's your point. What are you suggesting? That people don't have the right to use the packaging they want? Even when it's something that shouldn't be incendiary? That's not okay either.
Quote:So if you don't want your package to get tampered with, don't make it incendiary. Don't put religiously/politically charged messaging on the outside, because some people are stupid, and will do stupid things.
Again, this is not okay. It shouldn't matter. People should do their damn jobs properly. If it was a racial equality message on the packaging and a bunch of racists ruined the deliveries people would be far more outraged right? Right. You wouldn't just blow it off and say "well, surprise surprise, you don't have a right to complain, you should of known racists were part of this organisation that delivers the mail".
C'mon dude, it's fucking bullshit. Just because stupid people do stupid things, and just because you can predict the outcome, doesn't make the outcome any less outrageous. Nor does it invalidate your complaints if said outcome happens.