If anyone feels that someone’s career deserves to be harmed to such an extent because they unintentionally made someone else feel uncomfortable
My argument is that if people continue to push for more absurd demands on other people’s behavior (‘this person should have known this other person was uncomfortable even though this wasn’t communicated to the former person through multiple opportunities during repeated interactions of a similar kind’), those demands are going to critically damage the society they live in.
People naively ignore the fact that if they agree on penalizing people to such an extent for simple mistakes, then it’s likely that a reaction from other parts of society (parts that I assume many people here have to little to do with) will cause at least some rollback of the freedoms that were hard-won by more serious activists from the past, as well as prevent progress on many serious efforts that are ongoing today, by being associated with such radicalism.
Also, I think it’s simply authoritarian. Let people make mistakes without having to endure this kind of persecution.
a. They do not think your description of the situation matches the description Owen provided.
b. The desserts language is misleading because it’s not about who deserves career advancement but about can the person be placed in areas where their career has advanced in way that does not induce uncomfortable sexual situations upon others.
Please read my edit carefully.
My argument is that if people continue to push for more absurd demands on other people’s behavior (‘this person should have known this other person was uncomfortable even though this wasn’t communicated to the former person through multiple opportunities during repeated interactions of a similar kind’), those demands are going to critically damage the society they live in.
People naively ignore the fact that if they agree on penalizing people to such an extent for simple mistakes, then it’s likely that a reaction from other parts of society (parts that I assume many people here have to little to do with) will cause at least some rollback of the freedoms that were hard-won by more serious activists from the past, as well as prevent progress on many serious efforts that are ongoing today, by being associated with such radicalism.
Also, I think it’s simply authoritarian. Let people make mistakes without having to endure this kind of persecution.
I think people are disagree voting because:
a. They do not think your description of the situation matches the description Owen provided.
b. The desserts language is misleading because it’s not about who deserves career advancement but about can the person be placed in areas where their career has advanced in way that does not induce uncomfortable sexual situations upon others.