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That said, "I respect your amazing service dog. Is it a boy or a girl," or "what breed is your beautiful dog" asked alone will almost certainly not offend the disabled person and not result in a lawsuit! PS:One policies are interpreted by humans who are rational, have common sense, and who find the discipline process of the membership agreement painful to follow; if the disabled person wasn't offended and no lawsuit results, then there is no chance any disciplinary action would be taken against a person who asked those two questions.

That said, "I respect your amazing service dog. Is it a boy or a girl," or "what breed is your beautiful dog" asked alone will almost certainly not offend the disabled person and not result in a lawsuit! PS:One policies are interpreted by humans who are rational, have common sense, and who find the discipline process of the membership agreement painful to follow; if the disabled person wasn't offended and no lawsuit results, then there is no chance any disciplinary action would be taken against a person who asked those two questions.

Keeping this as part of PS:One's policies is beneficial. First, I don't think anyone knows about this. I didn't before researching this issue. A well-meaning person could ask questions of a disabled person that are illegal and could result in litigation. We don't want that. Second, if someone does ask these questions and the organization does gets sued, we can assert as a defence that the organization itself took efforts to prevent this from happening. --[[User:Rdpierce|Rdpierce]] ([[User talk:Rdpierce|talk]]) 08:00, 28 April 2015 (CDT)

Keeping this as part of PS:One's policies is beneficial. First, I don't think anyone knows about this. I didn't before researching this issue. A well-meaning person could ask questions of a disabled person that are illegal and could result in litigation. We don't want that. Making this a PS:One policy helps educate our own membership about federal law. Second, if someone does ask these questions and the organization does gets sued, we can assert as a defence that the organization itself took efforts to prevent this from happening, and that the person asking the questions did so while violating our policy. --[[User:Rdpierce|Rdpierce]] ([[User talk:Rdpierce|talk]]) 08:00, 28 April 2015 (CDT)