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by viraptor 4313 days ago
You should be always able to criticise companies/organisations you depend on. Otherwise, why would they improve anything for you?

Taking an example on a bigger scale: you should be able to openly criticise some actions of the government, even if you're receiving benefits.

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What's wrong with people in your community taking about the ways you are bad? If there isn't consensus about your goodness, that means you are either bring bad in ways you don't understand or you're being good in ways your community doesn't understand. Either way keeping a conversation going is a big party of the solution. Shutting down the conversion seems like a surefire way to make your relationship with your community worse.
Are you employed? Could you tell us some things you really dislike about your company? (Giving your real name and your employers real name)

Rolling with the government example: should the government be obliged to fund communists (or other people who think the current government is evil)?

The government funds people who think the current government is evil all the time. They don't fund them because they think the current government is evil, but I can assure you that there are people receiving unemployment benefits, social security, and other "entitlement program" checks that disagree loudly and publicly with the government all the time. (Some of them are probably critical of the same entitlement programs they rely on.)
They get money to eat and pay rent, not to build ideological organizations with the aim to undermine the government. You are talking about somebody completely different.
Yes I am. No, I couldn't. That's exactly what I think is not right and should change.