hey hey... I'm all good thanks! I suspect you're probably right, there's usually some sort of clause in these contracts which deals with such a thing. I know in the UK that police officers are not supposed to be members of any 'extreme' political party and if it is discovered they are, then they may be fired as a result.

You're correct that there is consideration of feelings of others - but that doesn't necessarily get to the heart of the matter. We can all be considerate of other people's feelings, but the question remains - whose feelings should we be considerate towards and whose feelings should we not. It may offend Neo-Nazis to have synagogues built in their town, but that doesn't mean we should take their offence taken into account when we're doing planning permissions for new buildings.

We must be very careful about 'feelings' - not because there's anything inherently bad about being considerate - simply that a legal precedent set by feelings may morph and change over time. When we legislate and create a society, we cannot pick and choose whose feelings we take into account because the law doesn't allow that.

Unless of course you're prepared to say "I'm sorry, I didn't realise what it (the flag, synagogue) meant to you" - when speaking to someone who believes in racial purity and keeping the Midwest entirely right. We cannot play moral fuckduggery and only implement what we agree with. :o)