Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.154108.3079@druid.uucp>
Date: 21 Dec 89 15:41:08 GMT
References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca> <1989Dec20.122639.1563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
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In article <1989Dec20.122639.1563@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:
>There's a law which says that stores cannot be open on Sundays (with certain
>exceptions). The police are merely enforcing that law. Don't blame them for
>doing their jobs.
>
I still don't believe that "I was just following orders" is a legitimate
excuse for trampling on people's rights.  Policemen, as well as any other
individual, have free will and can choose to violate someone's rights or not.
I realize that it is difficult to be a policeman in today's society and not
do this to some extent but I think we must protest it anyway or accept that
"might makes right."

>I don't think Sunday shopping is such a good thing, however. Remember:
>if a store is open on Sunday its employees have to work on Sunday. The retail
>sector employs a large chunk of the Canadian workforce. If Sunday becomes
>just another workday for the retail sector, its character as a more-or-less
>national day of rest is seriously diminished. 
>
The police departments of this country also employ a large chunk of the
Canadian workforce.  Do we give them Sunday off?  I like it :-).

>It is a good thing to have one day of the week on which most people do
>not work. It generally assures that families and friends will have at least 
>one day a week to do things together. That's pretty important for many people,
>including myself.
>
Fine.  Then take the day off.  Why do you insist that I have to take it off
as well?

>And then there's the religious factor. The predominant religion in Canada
>is Christianity, which holds (for the most part) Sunday as a day of rest.
>Keeping Sunday a day in which most people do not work seems to be the best
>way of accomodating the most people.
>
Now we get to the paragraph that made my blood boil and sent my finger
flying to the 'F' key in the first place.  Just because your gang (christians)
is bigger than mine (Jews, athiests, pagans, whatever) means that you get
to make the rules.  If your priests and ministers tell you it is against
the rules to shop or work on Sunday then feel free to abstain.  What bugs
me is the fact that you feel you have the right to stuff your religion
down my throat.

>John
>--
>John DiMarco                   jdd@db.toronto.edu or jdd@db.utoronto.ca
>University of Toronto, CSRI    BITNET: jdd%db.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
>(416) 978-8609                 UUCP: {uunet!utai,decvax!utcsri}!db!jdd

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