From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 10:28:21 MST
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From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com] On Behalf
Of Mermaid
Sent: 09 February 2004 03:13 PM
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Subject: virus: Re:terrorising air passengers..
[Blunderov]
Truly fascinating! Does he have less of a right to speak his own mind
freely if he is working for someone? Or is there always a sort of
Faustian pact implicit in accepting employment?
[Mermaid]Are you supporting the right of public and private sector
employees to bring in their personal viewpoints with the general
populace they are servicing?
[Blunderov1]
Yes I do believe I am. Unless they express opinions which militate
against the venture that they have undertaken to foster, I can see no
reason to preclude them from expressing themselves as they see fit.
Presuming that the passengers were under no compulsion to comply with
the pilot's suggestion, it is not clear to me that the pilot had harmed
the airlines interests and, who knows, he may even have enhanced them.
I am not in favour of absolute freedom of speech - the famous example of
shouting 'fire' in a crowded cinema when there is no danger is salutary.
But I am very jealous of as broad a right to free speech as is
reasonably possible and any attempt to constrain it arouses within me a
deep suspicion.
Best Regards
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