Horrible words. Hurtful to his family. Doesn't affect his ability to be a plumber. Stop sacking ppl for nasty ideashttps://twitter.com/Hells4Heroes/status/900761906037870592 …
Because the majority view always gets to decide which speech is so awful, punishment is warranted.
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That bloke saying it good a soldier died. A Muslim who recites Quran saying atheists shld? An atheist mocking the crucifixion?
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I'd put the onus on the employee. Emp shld know their boss's personality and the company culture and likelihood of ideas impacting emploment
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But that doesn't work ethically. If I have a religious employer or a sexist one, is it OK to punish me for criticising either?
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Should my mother not have marched & protested not being able to take accountancy exams coz her employer adamant against it?
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I'd much rather have a cultural disapproval of punishing speech generally than a lot of vague & abusable & shifting provisos
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There's an 'effectiveness' argument to be made. A pizza conpany is unlikely to hire a candidate who admits in interview that they hate pizza
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Yes, the pragmatic argument is different to the ethical one about whether its OK that we're normalising punishment for speech.
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As I've thought more about ethics I've come to view this distinction as being imaginary. What cld we view as knowledge that wasnt pragmatic?
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In this case, pragmatic relates to business concerns & ethical to whether right or wrong to punish speech.
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Wrong to punish speech, but people have a duty to follow through with their commitments. An employer has to act in interest of company 1st.
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I don't think we should normalise idea an employer gets to say what views employees can have in own time. The opposite.
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Moral knowledge is an iterative process where we loop through problems over and over, increasing our resolution to see the best answers.
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B/c of this, we need what you're saying (speech w/o conseq culture), but we also need room for mistakes and failures.
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