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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I think that trying to separate the legal and moral arguments is disingenuous in this instance. People who are trying to make a case against what Amazon has done are implying that they are violating laws against discrimination, yet when it is being pointed out that no such thing is being done they are saying that it is a moral issue instead of a legal one, and dismissing the legal facts. You can't have one without the other. Either something is discrimination under the law, or else it's merely something that you (a general "you" here) don't think is fair - and that definition of fairness is not necessarily that of others.
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I think you may find that the people on this thread who are upset about Amazon's actions are not an homogeneous mass hive-mind.
Some people appear to be arguing that Amazon's actions are illegal. Some people definitely are arguing that Amazon's actions are immoral. (I say 'definitely' because I'm doing that, and while I may not know what other people are arguing, I know what I'm arguing.
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There are multiple definitions of discrimination; the word doesn't just mean
legal discrimination.
You seem to be upset that not everyone wants to have the same argument (i.e., the "is someone going to go to jail over this" Rules Lawyer version) as you. That's okay - I mean, you're not obligated to address the morality issue, but don't breeze in and say "I don't see an issue here" and then get upset when people point out that there are more issues at state here than the U.S. legal code.
TL;DR: We can have it both ways (legal issues and moral issues) because there are a lot of different individuals in this thread approaching the issue from different viewpoints. A dismissive "nothing to see here, move along" comment isn't going to change that.
