Would you want this kind of person representing your company? Would you want your customers knowing you employ someone with his views?
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I'd want a norm that we didn't punish ppl for ideas. I'm an atheist so hold views others find appalling & immoral.
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What has being an atheist got to do with anything! Guy deserved what he got
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I defend the right of ppl to express views I find appalling coz I want the right to express those others do.
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I defend his right too, meaning the state shouldn't get involved. But I'd fire him, his free speech isnt consequence free.
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You wouldn't have free speech for employees. I would.
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Not consequence free, no. I have a company and other employees to care about.
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I see why ppl might fire him to save their business. I just wish we lived in society where this wasn't called for.
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Hmm. I don't think I'd want him doing any plumbing in my home if I was a squaddie though.
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Well you probably wouldn't know. I'm sure some ppl with horrible views have worked in my house.
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Almost certainly used a cabbie who thinks apostasy should be punished with death & homosexuality criminalised.
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He is responsible for what he says and does. Social consequences are a part of that. If there is no price for bad ideas, they never change.
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Yeah but you can say that about any ideas. Often used to discriminate against atheists coz ppl find our views immoral.
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I was agnst Google's firing of that memo guy. There are some big differences I see is in the details (public v private, science v ideology).
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You'd punish less speech but still some speech. I get it. I really do. But I'd still say no to normalising this.
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What if you have 2 or 3 other staff refusing to work with him? Keeping him becomes untenable? I find the employment bits of this tricky.
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Staff nothing. What if you have 2 or 3 thousand customers refusing to hire? There goes the company and all its employees.
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That's pragmatic rather than ethical tho. In many places ppl wld boycott a firm that employed a Muslim or atheist.
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I agree. And running a business will make someone very pragmatic. To a certain extent you are at the whims of your market base.
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Which is a problem when society normalizes punishing people for horrible ideas.
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