Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Aug 6 13:53:11 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 07:37 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> 2) Moral Harassment, as Rui defines it, is not harassment under the law
> in the US. We do not have the right to act indecently in situations
> where it imposes on the rights of others to not view our acts. Put
> another way, what you do in your bedroom is pretty much your business,
> but you don't have the right to do "your business" where others would
> have no choice but to watch you.

When the morals or definitions of indecency of others are imposed on me,
they're morally harassing me. I don't care that the law doesn't cover it
_yet_. I an only hope it does one day.

> 4) Free speech does *not* protect you from the willful display of
> inappropriate conduct in the workplace - by anyone's definition of
> inappropriate.

Conduct is not speech. But including perfectly normal words on speech
is, no matter what people like or not. And it is protected everywhere in
the USA, even while wearing a t-shirt reading: Fuck This Court while on
trial.

> ===============================
> "Our lives begin to end the day we
> become silent about things that matter."

hmms...

> -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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