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if firing the employee is not prosecuting them, what is? Well, how about something like: pros·e·cute (verb) law : to hold a trial against a person who is accu
by sliverstorm 13y ago
if firing the employee is not prosecuting them, what is?
Well, how about something like:
pros·e·cute (verb) law : to hold a trial against a person who is accused of a crime to see if that person is guilty
-- Merriam-Webster
- enraged_camel 13y agoI was using the term "prosecute" figuratively. But thank you for your pedantry. Sometimes I forget I'm on HN and comments like yours remind me again.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIt's hardly pedantry when it comes to legal documents... The first amendment does not protect against figurative prosecution, at least to my knowledge, so your premise is off. I realize you probably feel the actual text of the first amendment is needless pedantry, but what it actually says is congress shall pass no law...
- ewrgwerg 13y agomoron
- lbrandy 13y agoYou're committing an equivocation fallacy and (s)he's allowed to point that out.