Big Theories

Does anyone else think this (libertarians trying to figure out why sexual harassment is wrong) sounds better in the voice of Sheldon Cooper ?

[S]exual harassment must be wrong either because a) proposing to pay for sex is wrong or b) radically changing a person’s job description from (e.g. from secretary to prostitute/maid/babysitter) is wrong. That is, the employer’s threat must be to do something that is independently wrong. My intuition is that something like (b) makes sexual harassment wrong. In these extreme cases employees do have the authority to decline certain tasks that employers demand. In this case the employee may say ‘you led me to believe that the job did not require prostitution, so I have been deceived.’ Because it is wrong to deceive people, it is wrong to radically change a person’s job description, and so threatening to fire someone for refusing to comply with an impermissible demand is also impermissible.

PENNY
(sighs)
Yes, Sheldon. You've figured it out.
(rolls her eyes)
(shakes her head in resigned amusement as she leaves the apartment)

SHELDON
Penny? Where are you going?
I still need to explain The Friendship Algorithm!

END OF SCENE