OKCupid--teachers of ethics

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"If there were no doctors, there would be nothing stupider than teachers."  --Athanaeus
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OKCupid is the outfit that started the action, by calling for a boycott of Mozilla,  that got the CEO (who had given us Javascript, it seems) given the boot for having once held the same opinion about gay marriage as was then being promulgated by Barack Obama. His "hateful" ideas needed fixing, the hard way.  He took the fall graciously. They boycott trumped any free speech or freedom of conscience argument, it seems, for the ethical theorists at OKCupid.

Fast forward. Watch OKCupid's sophistsry in a less charged area. Are the two cases related> Not necessarily. OKC may by ethically correct in one case but not the other. Or both. Or neither.

But at least they should show some humility and leave their neighbors, especially those of good will, alone.


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