Tax avoidance is legal but is it ethical? Easy to go after the small man and make a lot of noise but little tax return. Better to go after the big ones and get much more dosh but the old pals act forbids such common sense ideas.
People who are used to going about the place unharassed will have got a small taste of what it is, to be viewed with suspicion.
That's a very narrow, UKcentric view of affairs.
Basically yes it is ethical. Although there is a law about you overdoing it. There is no such thing as old pals act. The tax man has no pals when comes to paying your taxes. They always go after the big evaders first. The fact the big evaders are a better at hiding it makes harder for them to catch....obviously.
You appear to be happy with the oppression of Muslim women. Wearing a veil is oppression, it is a belief that women are inferior to men.
Nowhere did I say I was a lefty and hate the rich. The taxman can only get tax on what is available but shifting money around to evade tax is legal but not to my mind ethical. Does the fact that I disapprove of the very rich not paying a fair share into the revenue make me a bad person?
I am not sure where you get head scarf from. I am talking about veils. Including veils where you cannot even see the woman's eyes. Even covering there hands with black gloves. There is no choic it is oppression end of story.It's my understanding that oppression or control is not the true religious significance of wearing a headscarf - although if an oppressor wants to oppress he will use whatever tools he can find..
I could try to explain the background, to it all, but it would only be coming from my white westernised non Muslim woman's viewpoint, and some of the nuance, finer points, and context would be lost.
I was similarly curious / conflicted around this issue, I even felt a bit the same, as you did.
So I'd recommend a book called "It's not about the burkqa"
An anthology of writings by Muslim women, who are feminists, oppose patriachal oppression / misinterpretation of the tenets of Islam, but whom also choose to wear a traditional head covering of some sort.
Edited by Mariam Khan.
I'd recommend it.
I guess a close but not altogether parallel analogy might be how I feel about going topless in public.
In some cases and situations I will go shirtless.
In others, where a man might take his top off, I will keep mine on.
This could be said to be down to social, or cultural pressure, or oppression even, because it is the traditional norm.
If I don't keep my top on in certain situations I risk unasked for attention, hostility, lewd remarks or stares, or misinterpretation, of my motives.
As I say it's not a perfect analogy, but just one example of our covering certain parts of our bodies at certain times because we feel more comfortable that way.
There are other precautions I have to take, as a woman, when I go off travelling, and camping by myself for example, which would probably never cross the minds of most guys.
And these precautions, and fears that they are based on, are entirely down to the fact that some men ( not all - but enough) have very little, or no respect for the freedoms and rights of women to go about their lives unmolested.
I hope this helps
Yes you are evil, you hate anyone who has more money than you.....only joking!
They serve another purpose as well. That being to protect the staff, on the tills/checkout, from irate members of the public. Best demonstrated in recent weeks since stores introduced limits on the amounts that could be bought.
The other purpose won't exist in the future obviously. There will be no limit in the future you will be able to buy as many loo rolls as you want. And when my neighbour asks me to get her 12 tins of sweetcorn for her chickens I won't have to go to 3 supermarkets to get it (only managed 10)
I'll tell that to the checkout operator who had a bottle smashed over her arm last year. All she did was ask for proof of age, a legal requirement.
Still don't see them staying there as they wouldn't stop anyone getting irate and probably still being able to get at the assistant.
