What sort of felonies do you consider negligible?
Every product is a snowflake, etc. Your product's brand will inform the structure of the content for that answer.
That said, sprinkle on a little hegemony, you've got yourself State Source (code) — as opposed to Open Source (code).
How should I know ?
It's about the lengths we will go to break a stacked deck. It's about prima facie privacy.
[EDIT: And who should be afforded that prima facie privacy. (We're obviously going to cherry-pick based on arbitrary characteristics like "shady".)]
The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all,
then it can also be answered.
—Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
In the end, nothing beats a Classical education.
It's postmodernism you're thinking of.
Fascinating.
Do you know of posey? It's right good stuff, even on Sundays.
I'm dodging the question because you should be focused on the "shady" characteristic. Even a morally reprehensible felon can appear non-shady. And a "shady" person with "negiligible" felony probably overly skews or augments their own perception of it, which makes them appear even "shadier" than they would without the felony, whatever its stripe.
Whatever the case, "felony", whatever its qualification, has a legal (non-personal) meaning, and it only has a meaning in that sense. Look at GEM Anscombe's distiction of institutional and brute facts. There's no such thing as a "brute fact" of felony.
What matters is what you think is negligible. The question is intended to tease out whether or not you believe absolutely that felony = no hire, or if there's some nuance to it.
> How should I know ?
He's asking because you wrote "If an African American man walked into your startup, given some negligible* felony history". Are you now implying that when you wrote that, you had no idea what you meant by it?
As I said above, even a negligible felony can be augmented or skewed by the felon, thus making them appear "shadier".
What you ultimately find out about the felony is irrelevant to the fact that you've just breached the trust of a potential relationship.
What is "healthy" supposed to look like? Do you even know? I think it's a sign of an uncritical mind that simply makes unjustified value judgments, with loaded, quasi-medical terminology, in the face of an increasingly apparent reality.
Dude, grow out of your IDE. You have no right to say what is "insanity".