"What? If you decide something is harmful to you, you should act on it. Don't just stand there like a wretched lemon being harmed. Take charge of your life"
Act on it, yes, but that doesn't mean you have a right to whatever action you decide on. There are limits.
"freedom of speech or freedom of association. The latter is if course every bit as much of a fundamental right as the former."
No, it's not. Freedom of association is a secondary right. It's explicitly abridged by civil rights acts that mandate commercial establishments not refuse service on the basis of race, for example.
"Eich used his "freedom of speech" (tsoney in his case) to harm people. They have every right to say "I ain't going to work for that wanker", and then every right to act on that and not work for him."
Absolutely. They have the right to decide not work for him for whatever reason they may have. That doesn't make your earlier blanket statemenrs correct, however.
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