> Yes, protip, abandon your rights so man children don’t get upset. This is clearly the best decision.
> This comment is sick.
Please enlighten me, what rights do you think I was suggesting people should abandon?
> This comment is sick.
Please enlighten me, what rights do you think I was suggesting people should abandon?
Firstly, I'm specifically saying there should NOT be consequences to him from what he said to the cop. That's bogus, unprofessional, and terrible.
But that said you also have responsibility for your speech that goes along with the freedom. Do you think people should just say every single thing that comes to their minds to their peers at work?
If not, then are you (as you suggest about me) saying people should abandon their 1A rights at work?
Or would you (much more sensibly IMHO) say that if you go around being a dick to people then it's going to affect the way they treat you and the boss you keep insulting isn't going to feel full of love toward you and want to promote you.
Telling somebody to use their free speech responsibly (which is what I am doing) is not in any way the same thing as telling them to abandon their right to free speech.
People respond not to what you actually said, but rather to what they think you secretly meant.
If it's a right, there is no "responsibly". It is a right. That's what rights are. To suggest "Well maybe sometimes don't" implies they aren't rights.
Telling somebody they should say whatever they want and there should be no consequences for it because you have a right to free speech is absolutely awful advice.
I _can_ honestly say that I expect the law enforcement officers that I pay out of my tax dollars to not act like fascist gestapo children and uphold my rights, as is literally their job.
> it's an is/ought fallacy because the real world doesn't work that way.
Because of people like you enabling bad behavior.
> People get offended by things people say all the time, and they treat those people differently because of it.
Yep. And then they get fired (or they should, but again, apologists like yourself make it all too easy to stay in power).
> Telling somebody they should say whatever they want and there should be no consequences for it because you have a right to free speech is absolutely awful advice.
Point out where I said there will be no consequences. And then once you realize I didn't, respond again if you'd like with a more coherent take? Because "Someone might get mad if you exercise your rights" is, to be honest, pretty ridiculous.