A pharmacist who doesn't like being a pharmacist anymore is free to stop being a pharmacist.
THAT IS NOT SLAVERY!!!!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!
Straw man, he does want to continue to be a pharmacist and he has customers who want to continue to do business with him. He has not been shown, or even accused to be incompetent or to have harmed any customer, only to refuse to do a specific type of work, nor was this on the basis of discrimination against anyone.
The only basis of such a regulation (to force medical professionals to provide medical services to which he has religious objections on pain of loss of license if he refuses) is religious bigotry in that the persons who want the regulation hold their convenience more important that the religious beliefs (and legal right to practice such) of others.
It is exactly equal to a regulation to the effect that a Jewish butcher must handle process and sell pork or lose his professional license.
Except that being a "pharmacist" in the United States is a very specific job description, and includes a lot of Federal regulations that have to do with public health issues. It's a lot more complicated that just "someone who stands behind the counter at the drugstore and hands people drugs". One doesn't go into the pharmacist profession and then get shocked because the government is suddenly strongarming him or her into performing certain duties; one is aware (or sure as hell should be aware) of what those duties are before one becomes a pharmacist.
Being a butcher also involves some regulations, yes, but surely you can see the difference between requiring a pharmacist to dispense prescribed medicine and requiring a butcher to sell pork.
As to your childish posting of photos of degrees with names taken out and your handle substituted, so what? It proves nothing, I am still posting in my own name, and my own face, you are still hiding behind a mask both literally and figuratively as is so clear in your photo.
I belive those are actually oyaji's degrees; I also believe it could be detrimental to him professionally if his name or likeness appeared on a porn site. He's certainly not scared of you or ashamed of his ideas or arguments.
Vampirate said:
Being a butcher also involves some regulations, yes, but surely you can see the difference between requiring a pharmacist to dispense prescribed medicine and requiring a butcher to sell pork.
I'm not sure how you arrive at this conclusion, as he has repeatedly stated there is no difference.
(Yes, I know, that was probably a rhetorical question.)
zarth
Seattle, WA
December 2004
JUN 23, 2007 12:57 PM