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In reply to the discussion: She wouldn't touch my bacon. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Businesses have to accommodate to a certain, reasonable standard, and so I would argue do individuals. I'd suggest that the person already is making accommodations to their belief system by working in a place that has pork at all, because even if they don't touch the bacon package, they're touching the money. Or maybe the belt the thing sat on. And the bacon is wrapped (hopefully, right) anyway. Maybe they touch the display case. The line, to me, seems a bit arbitrary.
To me it all -religions putting these sorts of demands on people- sounds like a big ol' case of OCD with the added disadvantage of having to fork over 10% of your paycheck to an organization that doesn't even have to pay taxes.
But, then, there are a lot of behaviors of the human animal I don't totally understand.