@bored said in Separating Art From Artist:
@Kestrel said in Separating Art From Artist:
Literally no one is treating at-will employment as a good thing.
You seem to be arguing that you don't support it, but only because you're in the UK. In the US, the only way people are getting fired for tweets (which you 100% support) is via at-will employment laws or (equally shady and anti-labor) 'morality clauses' in contracts. You can't separate the two things. If you want people to be able fired for (edit: relatively trivial - yes people can be fired for crimes and such) things that have literally nothing to do with their job, you're in favor of anti-labor employment laws. Consequences, as you like to say!
This is a false dichotomy.
You did. See? Right there. Bolded sections mine.
@Bored attempted to point out that believing, universally, that certain actions should come with certain consequences necessitates accepting that those consequences have to happen within an inseparable legal framework, which you attempted to say was a false dichotomy and that he was setting up a strawman.
The UK may have different laws, but UK law is not universal law, any more than US law is. But US law is more restrictive, and in order for it to happen in the US, you must by necessity use at-will employment, or in places where at-will employment was explicitly revoked in order to protect against pretextual end-runs of legally protected statuses the substantial equivalent, you are in fact supporting the substantial equivalent of at-will employment.
Unless you think that only citizens of the UK should be subject to such. Is that what you're arguing?