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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Rational approach to finding life partners - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 08 September 2015 05:05:50PM 1 point [-]

I'm not Mirzhan_Irkegulov, but my reaction to the two is very similar: both are correct, and in general no one has an obligation to have sex with anyone else and no one has an obligation to employ anyone else

I'm not VoiceOfRa, but I'd like to throw a little twist into this comparison. Let's change from "no woman owes sex" : "no boss owes a job" to "a women has the right to withdraw consent to sex at any time" : "a boss has the right to fire anyone at any time". Still very similar?

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 09 September 2015 12:29:46PM *  0 points [-]

"a boss has the right to fire anyone at any time"

In the US that's already the case and even the people who don't think that wives should be allowed to refuse sex from husbands seem to see nothing wrong with that. Well, except when someone is fired is for saying something factually correct but offensive.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 09 September 2015 01:50:08PM 2 points [-]

In the US that's already the case

No it isn't. You can fire unprotected classes of people, for unprotected reasons.

Comment author: Lumifer 09 September 2015 04:48:04PM 0 points [-]

In the US that's already the case

As OrphanWilde already pointed out, no, it's not. Even other than protected classes of people and protected reasons, trade union jobs and many public sector jobs are not employment at-will.