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Exactly, and that's how it should be. But all too often (both with this protest and earlier ones at Google), the people who receive consequences seem shocked ab
by dbrueck 2y ago
Exactly, and that's how it should be. But all too often (both with this protest and earlier ones at Google), the people who receive consequences seem shocked about being fired.
- happytoexplain 2y agoThis is the classic fallacy of "outrage == surprise". You can expect a person or entity might do something you personally find morally wrong and still sound angry when it happens - that's not hypocrisy or ignorance. You might even use words like "shocking" to describe their behavior, because, no matter how expected it might be, immoral behavior is shocking - and should be! Long story short, sometimes people try to use "expectation" to downplay bad behavior, and that's clearly irrelevant. The "expectation" for a business to do absolutely anything legal for profit is perhaps the most common manifestation of this fallacy.
- dbrueck 2y agoNo, no fallacy - in interviews with activist employees who got fired, it's not uncommon to see both surprise as well as outrage. Regardless, I was commenting on the ones who seem genuinely surprised that being fired was a possible outcome of their protests. It's as if that possibility never crossed their minds, which is itself surprising.