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Re: Willingness to share a position statement?

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Le vendredi 26 mars 2021 à 23:12:45+0100, Gerardo Ballabio a écrit :
> Ulrike Uhlig wrote:
> > That said, let's escalate your example a bit
> 
> "Escalate a bit" is quite an understatement, as you turned it into an
> example of criminal behavior. Which makes it irrelevant to the subject
> of this discussion, i.e., whether people can be discriminated for
> expressing their opinions without violating any laws.

Being a douchebag is not something criminal /per se/, and, well, it can
be enough to be fired from a job.

> The rest of your message is basically a repetition of the concept that
> if people do bad things, they should face consequences, which I agree
> 100% with. Where we seem to disagree, instead, is whether exercising
> the right to free speech is a bad thing.

Honestly, exercising it in order to hurt others is a bad thing.

One can protect a right and still thing some of its usages are bad.

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Re: Willingness to share a position statement? Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.ballabio@gmail.com> - 2021-03-26 23:40 +0100
  Re: Willingness to share a position statement? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2021-03-27 11:20 +0100
  Re: Willingness to share a position statement? Ulrike Uhlig <ulrike@debian.org> - 2021-03-27 14:40 +0100

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