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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think you're confused about what civil rights are. The government's protection of a right to a workplace that is free of sexual harassment is not an effort to solve a market failure that inhibits bargaining between private parties around what the optimum workplace should be like (Boss: I really value the ability to grope my subordinates. Potential subordinate: I'm not crazy about being groped, but the other job I'm looking at has a longer commute, so for the right price I guess I'm fine with that.). Civil rights are inalienable rights that you get by virtue of being a human and a citizen, and so cannot be bargained away.
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But some, at least, civil rights can be intentionally and knowingly waived. For example, the right to an attorney or jury trial. Similaarly, one waives some Fiat Amendment protection by working for the government.
And, as an aside, they are not inalienable. Governments change, law changes, and those "rights" become alienated
