> Coworkers don't need a license, because it's not illegal to make a pass at a coworker. I never said anything about legality. Ethics should not strictly be a

> Coworkers don't need a license, because it's not illegal to make a pass at a coworker. I never said anything about legality. Ethics should not strictly be a reflection of laws, laws should be a reflection of ethics. Using laws as the only things that guide your ethical decisions works fine if you want to be a major asshole to people, but not if you want to exist in a healthy community. > "Hitting on" is a crude way to describe buying a gift. Is love now banned at work? This isn't about "love" being "banned" at work or anything, this is about what constitutes appropriate behavior. You should try to not make things uncomfortable for others. The immediate personal cost you incur when you work to make a group of people less uncomfortable is tiny compared to the costs that they have to deal with from society handing them a raw deal, and it can help a lot.