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Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by LocalH on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:40PM (#26702018)
IMO that's not a valid reason to ignore deep-seated fears of others.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by zachrip on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:28PM (#26702696)
Oh I don't want to force anyone who has that fear through that, and I'm not suggesting it. All I'm saying is put a barrier to prevent it being easy to be classified as this type of driver so that it isn't abused.
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by ehmmmmmmmm on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:22PM (#26702615)
> fears of others

Fear of other people based on disability is discrimination. I have zero fear of blind people.

Fear of other species is not immoral. I'm afraid of snakes and alligators, and I'm just as afraid, if not much MORE afraid, of dogs, and my fears are justified by both hard data as well as past trauma.

Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by pessimizer on Monday April 05, 2021 @01:45PM (#26702097)
What if I'm afraid of homosexuals or black people?
Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by ehmmmmmmmm on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:01PM (#26702319)
I don't think that's funny or a valid comparison.

Dogs aren't even the same species. It's not immoral to be afraid of them and having PTSD because of negative interactions with a particular predatory canine species is very normal.

Hopefully service robots won't be very far into the future. I don't want to discriminate against blind people. But I really don't think there is a problem with not being okay around a particular set of non-human species (alligators, hornets, lions, coyotes, dogs, bears, mosquitoes, ...)

Re:Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides by pessimizer on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:50AM (#26713351)
I don't think it's funny either. I am a black person, and plenty of white people have been traumatized by their experiences (or lack of experiences) with black people. It's also not "immoral" to be afraid of anything, it is uncontrollable.

Don't avoid a direct, clear question by painting it as non-serious.