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A Subnautica developer has reportedly been fired over controversial comments he previously posted to Twitter, with the game's sound designer Simon Chylinski tweeting that he has been ousted from his position at Unknown Worlds Entertainment.
Chylinski has come under fire recently after a number of recent comments he posted to Twitter were placed under the spotlight. The sound designer took to Twitter yesterday to post an update on his status with Unknown Worlds Entertainment, tweeting: "so. i just got fired.. :("
Isn't it illegal to fire someone for their political views in California? Unknown Worlds Entertainment may be in for one hell of an uncapped damages lawsuit.
Source: http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/366749-subnautica-dev-fired-controversial-twitter-comments
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 16 2018, @09:26PM (15 children)
Stand on it, and you magically adopt Western norms of behavior.
Any non-Western norms that are harmful are already illegal. If they're not harmful, why do you care?
Enforcement of those norms is handled by the police, not magic.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Friday February 16 2018, @09:52PM (8 children)
"Any non-Western norms that are harmful are already illegal."
First, no, they aren't. For example, it is a Western norm that the political system should be independent of religion. It is not illegal for an Islamist to believe that Islamic law should take precedence over secular law. This is, however, harmful.
Second, the fact that something is illegal doesn't prevent people from doing it. Consider two crimes that are widespread within certain immigrant communities: female genital mutilation and forced marriages. These are not only illegal, they are gross violations of human rights. The immigrant communities know damned well that these things are illegal, but they value their culture (ahem, from which they fled) above the laws of the countries that took them in. This is harmful and illegal.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 16 2018, @10:02PM (2 children)
it is a Western norm that the political system should be independent of religion
Holy crap, someone really needs to let the Christians know that!
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Saturday February 17 2018, @12:02AM
It's an Enlightenment ideal. Don't worry though, the US no longer seems to be teaching those values. Progressive dogma seems dominant at the moment, opposed by 'conservatives'. Traditional liberal and libertarian ideals are thin on the ground, and the Enlightenment ideals get lip service then are treated like obstacles.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday February 18 2018, @02:47PM
The US does a much more thorough job of separating church and state than many European countries do. France is the only one I can think of that might be on par, there.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @11:11PM
Consider a human rights violation that is widespread in the US and not illegal due to religion (which often hides behind extremely sketchy medical arguments): Male genital mutilation. But it's the scary immigrants who are the real issue.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:07AM (1 child)
tell that to some of the hasidic jew, mennonite, amish, hutterite, mormon etc communities that more or less have their own de facto religious court systems in their communities...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:47AM
unless their activities contravene some actual law, if they choose to further govern themselves religiously, they're protected in doing so. separation of church and state provides that. thats part of what makes your country great. embrace it. especially if you don't like the religion. anything less and your country becomes nazi germany.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @01:35PM (1 child)
"This is harmful and illegal."
Go fuck yourself. Devarim chapter 22, verse 28 allows men to take female children as brides, via rape.
Devarim also says to kill anyone that entices you to follow another god/ruler/judge.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @09:38PM
Try studying the original Hebrew instead of some translated translation of a translated translation that some uppity King commissioned in response to an earlier English copy which included political commentary in the margins.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday February 16 2018, @10:35PM (3 children)
Expectoration. (Spitting) *is* illegal in some US states and Singapore.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-25291274 [bbc.com]
https://www.mercurynews.com/2009/02/23/roadshow-spitting-from-a-car-is-not-a-good-idea/ [mercurynews.com]
How about:
Littering.
Using the fire escape for your garbage, rather than putting it in the bin.
Leaving shopping trolleys outside your building (both a failure of public transport and of shops allowing trolleys out of the carpark)
Some of these *are* illegal, some are just culturally unacceptable.
What are western norms, anyway? Hypocrisy? Domestic Violence? Sleeping with your secretary? Going to (the correct) church?
Which bits do you want immigrants to adopt?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @03:09AM
In the US, guns are like xml. if youre not getting the results you want, you just need more guns.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:50AM
greed, avarice, narcissism. you know, the backbone of american "culture". anything more or less is anathema and not the american way. the business of america is business. make america greedy again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @01:32PM
None of those are intrinsically western, you will find similar flaws in any culture, historic or current.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 16 2018, @11:37PM
No. Enforcement of the law is handled by the police. Enforcement of societal norms is generally handled through social pressure. Of course, many immigrants stick to their existing social circles from their home nation, and don't integrate into greater society to be influenced by the host nation's social pressures.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @01:47AM
Good thing the police are so effective at preventing grenade attacks in Sweden and acid attacks in the UK.