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TDAS04
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« on: April 03, 2013, 03:36:03 PM »

This court is going a bit too far.
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2013, 07:57:08 AM »
« Edited: April 04, 2013, 08:58:03 AM by TDAS04 »

This court is going a bit too far.

In your opinion, what is a court's purpose?

To interpret the Constitution and law, and to throw out unconstitutional laws.  Well, I'm not as familiar with the Danish judiciary, so maybe I'm wrong.  The court may be doing the appropriate thing in Denmark, or the European Union.  In the US, this would be silly, but I suppose that a Danish court can do what it pleases.
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2013, 02:07:01 PM »

Why would it be silly in the United States? Charging women and men different amounts for an otherwise identical service is prima facie discriminatory.

I don't feel that strongly about this, I'm just saying that every form of equality in every way is impossible.  It would be awful to force a woman to pay more for the same labor/time-consuming haircut than a man would pay.  I don't know everything about this case, so I may have misunderstood and assumed that Denmark was attempting to artificially make the average female haircut cost the same as a man's.  That would be ridiculous, and if women on average request more complicated haircuts than men, people should just live with that.  There are plenty of things for which men may, a on average, be more fussy than women.  For those things, it would be stupid for men to complain about having to pay more than the average woman.  That's what I thought this issue was about, but maybe I was wrong.  If the service is identical, then yes, women shouldn't have to pay more than men.
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