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kalberts7-Feb-17 4:01
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If seriousness is permitted in this thread...

You may be unable to understand that for some people, distinguishing between two alternatives has no value, at least in a given situation. If you reject any sort of alcholic beverages, to you, distinguishing between spirits, wine and beer is not necessary. To me, distinguishing between different car brands is more or less without value. To a good American, distinguishing between political movements to the left of the Democrats makes no sense. To immigration authorities, a five year old kid is indistinguishable from a known IS member carrying a machine gun. ("Moslems are evil. You are a Moslem. Therefore you are evil".) To a HiFi freak, the label on the amplifier front is fundamental to distinguish between different makes, to a music lover, label differences matter nothing but sound differences do.

It is all very culture dependent, and dependent on your personal preferences and "morals". You may have to lay your morals and opinions aside at work, and do the job you are paid to do - or quit that job. Here in Norway, hospital workers (doctors, nurses,...) may, on religious grounds, refuse to participate in any abortion, without loosing their job - but in such cases, they are required to refer you to some other that will do the job. If you, for religious reasons, don't want to serve pork (or alcohol) to someone, you may ask the management to be assigned to tasks that causes no such problems.

But I can easily see situations where you simply forget that putting apples and oranges into the same basket is due to your own morals, ideas, cultural background, whatever. I may confuse car makes. Others may accidentally overlook the difference between a Java application and a Javascript application. I have seen a telephone salesman selling a wireless DECT telephone to a 80+ yo customer who really was trying to buy a cellular (I tried to intervene, but the old man trusted the salesman more than he trusted me).

In my work, switching between programming languages, I now and then scratch my head for a long time over a compiler message until I realize that I am using a Python construct in C#, or the other way around. Or I move a script from bash to cmd.exe, or the other way around, getting strange errors because casing is significant in one, not in the other. I can stare at such scripts for quite a few minutes before I realize the cause of the problem: That I didn't distinguish between objects that are distinct, or I assumed that they are distinct but they are not, not in this context.

If that MD employee was a jew, say, off work he would probably have no reason to distinguish between sausage and bacon. So if he happens to argue the same way at work as he does at home (when explaining to his kids that they will not have hot dogs is the kid's birthday party), I can certainly understand it. That is not to say that I will defend it. But I am not surprised that it can happen. It is just like me not keeping languages apart. Or immigration decrees not distinguishing between different kinds of humans. Or a salesman (deliberately or by ignorance) mixing up DECT phones with cellular phones.

Such mixups occur all the time. It makes no sense for people to whom the tiny details are essential. A few of my colleagues are shocked when I give them a blank stare when they refer to, say, 'that fellow with the white Class D Mecredes', I am "shocked" when they cannot tell the time measure on some tune. We shouldn't be shocked. We should just note "OK, so you don't care about the details in that area. Maybe your interests go in other dirctions".
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