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Re: >Repugnant ethics< thread Wooley/Bello From: Robert J. Woolley (wooll005@gold.tc.umn.edu) Wed Apr 23 16:36:29 1997 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Paul Prior MD: "Re: Death to the ABOG" Previous message: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: Death to the ABOG" In message <199704232106.QAA05978@talk.obgyn.net> writes: > At Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Robert J. Woolley wrote: > > > > >Are you saying, Dr. Braun, that you, too, would favor a person of a > particular > >race or sex on the basis of that characteristic over another candidate > lacking > >the "desired" characteristic? > > > > If you have two *male* applicants for the same position, and both are > equally qualified, you have to choose one based on something, whether > it's (1) personality, (2) looks, (3) clothing, whatever. In other > words, you have to discriminate between the two applicants. That may be > shallow, but it's not bigoted. Agreed. Obviously, subjective, intangibles play a role in most job selection. It's just that we, as a society, have collectively decided that you may *not* use *some* characteristics, including race, sex, religion, etc. Well, when I say "we" I obviously mean a majority, not every individual. Dr. Bello, e.g., is one who has indicated his dissent from this consensus. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Woolley -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Paul, Minnesota I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. -- Tolstoy Next message: Paul Prior MD: "Re: Death to the ABOG" Previous message: rbraun@indyunix.iupui.edu: "Re: Death to the ABOG"

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