A Swiss secondary school has caused uproar by allowing two Muslim boys not to shake the hand of women teachers - a common greeting in Swiss schools.The boys had told the school in the small, northern town of Therwil it was against their faith to touch a woman outside their family.Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga said shaking hands was part of Swiss culture and daily life.A local teachers' union said the exemption discriminated against women.
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Is stealing from a small shop worse than from a chain? | Clare Carlisle | Comment is fr... - 0 views
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David Lammy has raised interesting questions on how we judge a crime like theft. Moral absolutism and monetary value are more compatible than you think
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Our justice system, like our personal moral intuitions, combines a commitment to the absolute wrongness of certain actions – theft, murder, and rape, for example – with the recognition that different contexts make some such actions worse than others. The more absolute judgment focuses on the action itself, while the secondary judgment about a crime’s severity takes motivations and consequences into account.
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