I thought we were talking about the people who had to work on the holiday. Well ... if you weren’t I was, anyway.
AND ... that makes me wonder ... what about some automated website, where it’s all done electronically. I order something on the Apple website and the Chinese factory gets the order and gets ready to ship it. They’re PAGANS over in China anyway.
BUT, if you were in Israel, you would have to contend with the Haredim over there who get laws passed about this. And they even get hotels to run the elevators by NOT PUSHING THE BUTTONS, because it would be a violation of “no work on the Sabbath” if they had to push a button on the elevator ... :-) ...
There is an eruv where I live.
There always seem to be ways of skirting the stricter rules. (Not meant as a criticism,just an observation).
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Well said. Your points are spot on and show what happens when one lives somewhere other than (what is left of) a constitutional republic