I think it&#x27;s unfair of you to take specific people and put an uncharitable spin on an internet thread to impugn them. There isn&#x27;t nearly enough information there to justify a categorical statement like &quot;when a woman becomes pregnant Markhor will fire her&quot;.<p>If you want to debate abstract ethics, fine, but if you bring up factual people you should have some factual evidence. Those comments aren&#x27;t evidence of firing anybody for being pregnant—they&#x27;re evidence of how easy it is to get embroiled in the gotcha thread du jour on an internet message board. I seem to recall that you like the Principle of Charity; it&#x27;s pretty straightforward to come up with a more charitable interpretation of what happened there.<p>(Edit: lest anyone wonders, I don&#x27;t know the Markhor founders and yes I would defend anyone the same way if they were being treated unfairly on HN.)