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I meant "the first time I hear" quite literally, I know there are state laws and those can be quite different, I just had never heard of a specific law regarding employee protection that actually was better for employees

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There was no doubt to the literality of your statement. I was simply highlighting your misplaced assumptions and how they can be addressed/corrected in the future.

There was no misplaced assumption.

Sounds like you assume Germany will be better for employee protections in all ways compared to America.

No, again, I simply hadn't heard of an example. I knew there was the chance, after all some states have legal abortion which Germany still does not (it's almost defacto legal, but only almost) to take another example.

You’re literally describing an assumption. You didn’t know of an exact example, so you believed something that isn’t necessarily true.

You keep trying to put words in my mouth. I never said I believed such a thing.

> I just had never heard of a specific law regarding employee protection that actually was better for employees; ergo I assumed there wasn't, leading to my surprise at hearing otherwise.

Here is an expanded version of your quote that highlights the assumption.

That does highlight your assumption, not mine, considering I never said anything like that.

If you say so.

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