Freedom of Accomodation

Ever have one of those situations where you're exposed to an idea either for the first time, or it's reintroduced and then everywhere you turn, it seems to be popping up ?

Accommodations are like that for me right now.

I can't seem to get away from the concept of accommodating someone's specific need, beliefs or quirks.

And each time I hear about it, the same question goes through my own mind - since when did accommodating someone's personal situation include having negative implications for another ?

I see little problem with excluding someone from a given situation, so they aren't exposed to something they don't happen to like, except when the doing of it - the accommodating itself -  has a negative impact on another person.  In other words, accommodation has to be implication free.  The kid that elects not to hear the Lord's Prayer in school, stands in the hall when it's done - that is fine.  Only they are affected.  The child that cannot participate in gym class due to some physical issue, doesn't participate.

But when a person has to be accommodated and as a result others have to pick up the pieces, then that's not a case for accommodation, that's a person that isn't willing to participate in the activity, according to the rules of the activity.  If my chosen religion means I can't work on Tuesday's, and my job normally calls for that - well then I shouldn't be given that job. Play it out to extremes...I'd like to be a fish, but need accommodation as I can't actually breathe underwater, so I'll do all the other fish activities, except for being underwater. Silly, right ?

Today in society in an effort to be equitable, we are seeing more and more accommodation pop up. But it isn't a freedom or right, and I fear that in order to be reasonable we are confused about it in more than a few cases.