Sunday, January 6, 2008

[BDSM-LegalIssues] Re: New book -- good but disturbing

--- In BDSM-LegalIssues@yahoogroups.com, "cadenas_sd" <cadenas@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In BDSM-LegalIssues@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis" <edgeplay_cgo@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In BDSM-LegalIssues@yahoogroups.com, "cadenas_sd" <cadenas@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Would you also argue that an employer is acting appropriately
if he
> > > refuses to hire blacks in our litigious culture? After all,
blacks
> > are
> > > arrested far more frequently than whites.
> >
> > That's a straw man argument. We are discussing a situation where
> > there is actual evidence of specific wrongdoing.
>
> You are the one making a straw man argument here. I have said
> repeatedly that if the employer has evidence of wrongdoing - as
> opposed to just evidence of an arrest - then of course taking action
> on that can be justified.

An arrest IS evidence of wrongdoing. It is probably better evidence
than you or I are going to be able to generate on our own. I should
have no obligation to conduct an independent inquiry into a crime.
Indeed, doing so might be obstruction of justice, in a practical if
not a strictly legal sense.

- Dennis

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