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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2715948" data-attributes="member: 18280">From <a href="http://selfknowledge.com/26993.htm:" target="_blank">http://selfknowledge.com/26993.htm:</a>It should be fairly clear why discrimination has, generally, been considered a good thing throughout most of human history in most of its definitions.  What is a bad thing is definition 3:  arbitrary discrimination.  Arbitrary discrimination can be illegal (for example, when one discriminates on the basis of race, colour, or creed) or legal (for example, when one prefers Skippy to Jiff).  What we are looking at here, though, is not a case of arbitrary discrimination.What we are looking at here is a case of noting and marking differences; a case of judgment.  Where etiquette is concerned, a little more clearness and discernment would generally be better for us all.  Unfortunately, we live in a society where we see our "rights" much more clearly than the "responsibilities" that those rights entail.Simply put, no one has a "right" to service in an establishment wherein they refuse to take "responsibility" for their behaviour.  Think you have no responsiblity for your children's behaviour?  Think again.  When a child runs into the display case and it finally shatters who is going to be responsible for damages?  How about for the resultant injury and/or death?  We live in a society where the answer is, all too often, the cafe owner.  How could one then also claim that the cafe owner doesn't have the right to demand that the parents be responsible for their children while in the cafe?  Sorry, but that's just insane.RC</blockquote>

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