Expression, Consequences, and Civility

1,366 views · Published 15 April 2014 · 25:56 · Indexed 3 October 2026

Channel: Paul McKeever · 2014 · News & Politics

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Should you be able to speak your mind about a political issue without possibly losing your job?  If you lose your job over saying/doing something that people objected to - as Mozilla's CEO Brendan Eich did for supporting a ballot initiative against same-sex marriage - is that fascism?  Is it Naziism? 

Should you be able to say anything you want without facing such consequences?  What about civility?

And, speaking of civility, should a legislator be able to propose anything he wants to in the legislature, or are some propositions non-starters?  Does civility imply tolerance for every single idea?

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