Do we really need markets everywhere, protecting products and services, instead of humans?
At least this is the impression while reading the [Guardian]report, titled
Israeli airline can’t make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules
El Al loses case brought by Holocaust survivor asked to move after ultra-orthodox man refused to sit next to her
Seeing there the remark on the background of the judgement:
Cohen-Lekah said the policy was a “direct transgression” of the Israeli discrimination laws relating to products and services.
So easy to be satisfied as such appalling behaviour is rebuked to result in overlooking a tiny, though fundamentally important point:
I suppose it would have been enough, simply saying: 82-year-old Holocaust survivor and a former lawyer, Renee Rabinowitz is a human being.
I suppose It would have been enough to simply take being a human as point of departure for a a judgment that is humane …
legal syllogism has two dimensions
* the formal:
- legal norm/rule
- case at hand
- judgement as conclusio
* the substantial
- humanity as socio-natural being
- being member of a ‘social group’
- claim of human rights
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 