Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by core-questions on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:28PM
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> It's that the employees are uncomfortable doing business with people who they see will use their products to do harm.
This is a ridiculous attitude. The vast, vast majority of police actions keep the populace in general from greater harm. This is just virtue signalling at scale, and I am glad the CEO is ignoring this.
> If you go into a gun shop and the person working the counter believes you're going to use it to kill someone they're well within their right to simply not do business with you.
This is an asinine comparison, and I think you know that.
Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by nightowl_games on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:01PM
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The citizen only has the power to resign. The subtext here is a "threat to resignation".
It's praiseworthy but not obligatory. And it's also the only real power that Ford employees have.
If you go into a gun shop and the person working the counter believes you're going to use it to kill someone they're well within their right to simply not do business with you. The power to not associate or sell one's goods or labor is pretty much the only tangible power your average citizen has. Might as well let them wield it sometimes.