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You'll hear two explanations
for why he was fired.
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It is up to you
to sift through the facts -
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- until you determine
what you think to be the truth.
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Certain points must be proven.
One: Andrew Beckett was ...
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... is a brilliant lawyer.
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Two: Andrew Beckett,
has a debilitating disease.
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He made the legal choice to keep
this fact from his employers.
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Three: His employer discovered this.
The illness here is AIDS.
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Four: They panicked.
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They did what most of us
would like to do with AIDS.
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Get it and everybody who has it
as far away from us as possible.
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Such behaviour may seem reasonable
to you. It does to me.
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AIDS is an incurable disease.
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But no matter what moral judgement
you make upon his employers, -
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- the fact that Beckett was fired
because he had AIDS ...
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... means they broke the law.
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Fact:
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Andrew Beckett's performance
on the job varied from competent ...
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... to, often times, mediocre ...
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... to sometimes
flagrantly incompetent.
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Fact:
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He claims
he's the victim of lies and deceit.