Serious Conscience in the workplace.

[DetroitLolcat]

I believe the Uniform Code of Military justice mandates that a soldier that is asked to perform war crimes must resist to the point of mutiny to avoid committing war crimes. If the soldier is at gunpoint and commits a war crime because his commander threatened to kill him otherwise, then his actions are excused. Soldiers are expected not to violate the U.S. Constitution or the laws or war when serving if I remember correctly.

For protection in the workplace, I believe that the government should not protect those who refuse to do their jobs for personal reasons. If you are a Christian doctor looking for employment at a hospital, then you should make it known that you are not willing to perform abortions. If you are expected to perform abortions as part of your job, then you should either ask your employer/potential employer to accommodate you or see if a different doctor can perform the job. If being in a place where abortions are performed makes you uncomfortable, then maybe you should find a job somewhere else...

The will of the patient should come before the will of the doctor, after all, the patient is paying for the doctor to perform a service on them. The doctor is essentially being commissioned by the patient, and though the doctor can recommend procedures and ask the patient to reconsider a procedure, his job is to perform a service for the patient.

 

[MrIndigo]

^ that's a seriously good question

A friend on another forum quoted someone else who had attempted to make the analogy of a strict, conscientious vegan business owner objecting to supporting health insurance for their employees that covers treatments that rely on animal testing, or other practices they find morally objectionable.

The point was HURRHURRHURR YOU WOULDN'T ALLOW THAT WOULD YOU?!

But really... why should a strict vegan be forced to use their time, money, energy, etc, to support or enable something that they conscientiously object to? I mean, no offense, I think veganism is ridiculous, but why should they be forced to fork over their hard earned gains to support something they object to on moral grounds?

I'm morally opposed to drone strikes, but it doesn't mean I get a tax rebate every time the Government uses one (especially because I don't pay US taxes lol).

Moral opposition to something is all well and good, but when a Government validly enacts something that fucks your morals, then fuck your morals. That's what being in a democracy entails.

Ultimately, I find those "I shouldn't pay for this, it's against my morals!" arguments to be more concerned with not wanting to pay at all rather than any underlying moral principle. If you're morally opposed to using health treatments that are tested on animals (which, by the way, is ALL OF THEM BY LAW), then don't use them; everyone else will. It's your choice not to partake, it's not your choice to skip out on paying, just like every other piece of infrastructure.