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> hope anyone else that believes in any form of discrimination and wants to lead a company gets the same treatment or worse. Is it okay to discriminate against
by kijin 13y ago
> hope anyone else that believes in any form of discrimination and wants to lead a company gets the same treatment or worse.
Is it okay to discriminate against people who discriminate? I'm not being sarcastic, it's a serious philosophical question.
Why do we even apply fair procedures and guarantee the rule of law for murderers, many of whom are racist, misogynistic, and/or homophobic? They discriminate, so why shouldn't we discriminate against them, too?
You're right, it's a human rights issue. But the thing about human rights is that even people who violate other people's human rights retain human rights of their own, merely in virtue of the fact that they are a specimen of Homo sapiens. Without human rights, we'll be left with nothing more than an endless cycle of discrimination, which quickly becomes indistinguishable from an endless cycle of vengeance.
- steven2012 13y agoAs I mentioned below, you have confused discrimination with punishment. Eich is not being discriminated against, he is being punished. He lost his job because the people he worked for and the customers of his company's product did not want his as their CEO. If he never works in the tech industry again because he is a shunned pariah, then that would probably be discrimination.
- kijin 13y agoIn the sentence I quoted above, you wished that anyone who donates to an anti-gay-marriage campaign (or similar) will be prevented from occupying an executive position of any company in the future. That sounds more like discrimination than punishment, even according to your own definition.
- steven2012 13y agoNo it sounds perfectly consistent to me. Anyone who discriminates against any class of people should be rightfully suffer the consequences of their views. If they recant their discriminatory views, I have no problems supporting them. Gay people do not have the same luxury of changing who they are.
- glomph 13y agoIt isn't a new one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance