let them sink by the weight of their own dumbell-hood
attendez!
".. emblematic of what’s wrong with liberals.:
their immediate impulse to limit an employer’s options? ... what about employers freedoms?
Why not spend some time thinking of solutions that are compatible with liberty, instead of assuming that employers’ rights don’t matter?"
"I am more skeptical about the state's politicians and bureaucrats right to rule us
than corporate managements rights to rule the companies they manage"
"Employment relationships are relevantly similar. Like marriage, our identities are shaped by our relationships at work, and work matters a lot for our happiness. Work can be a central life project. For these reasons, both employers’ and employees’ rights are important"
"Employers secure the actual consent of their workers while few of us actually consent to political leaders. These asymmetries are normatively important."
"the friend of contract freedom can appeal to three social mechanisms in order to undermine workplace coercion as the socialist understands it"
" legal (perhaps through torts)
economic (perhaps through competition)
and moral (perhaps through ostracism and blame). "
"hese mechanisms can make it the case that employers generally “cannot” engage in workplace coercion, while preserving freedom of contract. Yes, my socialist-leaning friends, we BHLers can have it all!"
".. opt to use the moral order instead of the political order when possible, since the moral order is not essentially coercive."
"(Though the moral order can be oppressive, even worse than the political order, as Mill said. Better to be in jail than to be hated by your friends, after all.)"
"In sum, the moral order can help a society respect both types of freedom at the same time, which promises to reconcile socialists and liberals."
"excessive interference in economic activities like contract or productive property ownership is as burdensome and wrong as excessive interference with other important kinds of projects like association and private property ownership. "
"That is, whatever makes the traditional list of basic liberties distinctively important in their own right, will also distinguish a range of economic activities."
"excessive interference in economic activities like contract or productive property ownership is as burdensome and wrong as excessive interference with other important kinds of projects like association and private property ownership. "
"That is, whatever makes the traditional list of basic liberties distinctively important in their own right, will also distinguish a range of economic activities."
