If you replace sex with race you’ll realise that you’re completely wrong. There is no legal reason to choose your driver’s gender, just like there is no reason to choose your driver’s race. The fact that some drivers harass women is because Uber and Lyft don’t screen drivers sufficiently to protect passengers.
Hmm, you are right, replacing gender with race does make a good point I didn’t realize. “I want to be able to choose a white driver because I wouldn’t feel safe with a driver of different race” is basically the same point as with gender, but sounds way more wrong and it shows pretty well why is the whole idea a bad one.
At least I’m struggling to find any arguments for the gender version (which is not a bad thing, mind you), if I take this race example into account. You are right that way more rigorous screening of drivers with 0-strike policy would be a lot better than this.
In general this might work for a lot of similar situations, treating gender as a race. I’ll keep that in mind, because it makes sense and I never really though about it that way. Thanks!
If you replace sex with race you’ll realise that you’re completely wrong. There is no legal reason to choose your driver’s gender, just like there is no reason to choose your driver’s race. The fact that some drivers harass women is because Uber and Lyft don’t screen drivers sufficiently to protect passengers.
Hmm, you are right, replacing gender with race does make a good point I didn’t realize. “I want to be able to choose a white driver because I wouldn’t feel safe with a driver of different race” is basically the same point as with gender, but sounds way more wrong and it shows pretty well why is the whole idea a bad one.
At least I’m struggling to find any arguments for the gender version (which is not a bad thing, mind you), if I take this race example into account. You are right that way more rigorous screening of drivers with 0-strike policy would be a lot better than this.
In general this might work for a lot of similar situations, treating gender as a race. I’ll keep that in mind, because it makes sense and I never really though about it that way. Thanks!