Damore, Gudeman Plaint Against Google

On one hand, it's his right and I do think Google was wrong to terminate his employment (his memo was misguided, but IMO not malicious and talking honestly about what was wrong with it would've done much more good than "punishing the offender"). And he's still young - the same factors that justified (in my eyes) his actions only make it more likely that he'd do something like this.

On the other hand - I'm sad that he didn't take the moral upper ground. Yes Google was wrong to terminate him, but this is a textbook case where trying to get "justice" only makes it worse for everyone. Including for "other people like you". You can't hope to fix the world this way - the most he can achieve is some monetary compensation (at the cost of some really bad karma). And that compensation is very questionable (whereas the bad karma is not).