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JUDGING from last week's controversy over the refusal of an employee of Kinko's Copies to print a flyer from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) opposing University Health Services (UHS) funding for abortion, it would be easy to conclude that the world had been turned upside down...
...copies, collates and manipulates the cash register, all functions that will soon be performed wholly by machines (were it financially feasible, Kinko's would replace him with one). The employee was not hired to judge what does or does not deserve his attention; it is surely not his place to make so-called "decisions of conscience." Frankly, I do not want him filtering what...
THIS is a coldly logical perspective. Were I that employee I, too, would feel the urge to snub AALARM in any way possible. But if Kinko's employees deny AALARM their service, and Gnomon and Harvard University Copy do the same, then AALARM's freedom to disseminate information will be inhibited...
...opening a storefront, Kinko's makes an informal contract with the community to produce facsimiles for its customers, regardless of content (save copyright and First Amendment restrictions). Thus, the situation becomes as clear-cut as Skokie or Deep Throat...
...employee of Kinko's chooses to refuse service to a customer, then he may certainly do so: once. In this way, the employee is allowed the freedom to abide by his personal moral code and not assist in the dissemination of ideas which he finds repulsive. Yet because he is not fulfilling his duties either to Kinko's or to the community, he should not merely have been reprimanded, as Kinko's chose...