PM wrote:
puddingmouse wrote:
Any job requires a sacrifice of freedom. Jobs require you to go to a certain place at certain times and do certain things. Not doing them gets you sacked. If we take you argument to its logical conclusion, then it's better not to work for someone else at all, rather than sacrifice any of our freedoms. Not everyone has the option of working for themselves.
I'm not disagreeing, she simply took a stand for her personal liberty by refusing and resigning.
Also, to Goonsquad: Who said I was a Libertarian?
I’m not calling names, just throwing it out there.
Too many people, especially those who identify themselves as libertarian, fetishize the concept of personal freedom and profoundly misunderstand what it is in the context of civil society. Edmund Burke explains it rather well.
To my mind, this nurse is not some martyr for personal freedom. She's just a woman who chose not to act in a reasonable, considerate manner and lost her job as a result.
Nobody is free to needlessly imperil other people.
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No man is free who is not master of himself.~Epictetus