• iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world
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      So a pharmacist should be allowed to refuse selling e.g. birth control, due to personal beliefs? Everyone can just decide who they want to service for any reason, right?

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        the post office is right to punish her for not doing her job, but she is also right to sacrifice her job for an act of civil disobedience. they are both right. the only person who’s a piece of shit here is the one sending the mail.

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          That. What this parent did was a laudable act of civil disobedience. Unfortunately, the post office did what they had to do.

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            They don’t have to. Our democracy has the capacity to change for the better. We should push for this change going forward.

            edit: This story is about Canada, but they are also democracy. The US should learn from this woman’s example.

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        People have to the right to make strategic decisions defend life and liberty. This would be like refusing to spread a disinformation campaign to ban birth control. Abortion is lifesaving healthcare and reproductive freedom. Choosing to defend that is not an arbitrary decision but who we are as a freedom loving democracy.

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      Their free speech is bad. OK.

      What does that have to do with delivering the mail as the carrier takes an oath to do ?

      Or was professionalism in the civil service bullshit from the start ?

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        Their free speech is bad. OK.

        Yeah, hate speech is bad. IDGAF about your free speech when that speech is “I think this group I don’t like should be eliminated or removed from society.”

        If this were a conservative refusing to deliver liberal info you’d call the refusal free speech itself and argue firing her is illegal - so y’all can sit the fuck down.