Should vegan grocery store checkout clerks be able to refuse to sell meat to customers because they find it morally objectionable? Of course not. Should the guy at the Wal*Mart sporting goods counter refuse to sell you a shotgun because they object to guns? Again, of course not. This is the same thing. If their sensibilities clash with their job, then they need to look for a new line of work. It’s that simple.
I agree. Either find an employer who agrees with your position or do the job you were hired to do. These guys knew the job description called for filling legal prescriptions for FDA approved medicine when they accepted their positions. If they feel so strongly about not doing the job they were hired to do, why take the job? Do these pharmacists demand the deduction of profit percentage earned from the store distributing medicine they refuse to sell from their salary?
Your examples are not relevant.
These guys are forced to sell something that they know will result in the death of a person, it’s the reason the drug exists in the first place - to kill. That’s forcing them into becoming participants of another person’s murder.
That’s a whole different issue than not selling someone else meat just because you object to it.
your post makes too much sense
for this forum!
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So you are equating the slaughter of animals and the sale of an inanimate weapon with providing the means to murder a child?
Something is that simple, but not this debate.
So, you were looking for DailyKos, and ended up on FR?!?
That's a new one.
Thank you for that well-reasoned response.
If you don't want to do what you are paid to do, find a new job. Problem solved! The golden rule, the man writing the check makes the rules.
Yep!!! When I go to get a prescription filled I expect the service to be performed. I'm not there to debate the morality of the drug I have been prescribed. Personally, I couldn't care less what views the pharmacist holds. Shut up and do your damn job or send me someone who will.
The pharmacists job is to fill prescriptions and sell medication. I know plenty of people get upset that the drug exists, but if it is sold at a store, and is legal for me to buy, it should be my right to buy it.
Your post sums it up well.
That article was about the state forcing businesses and their pharmacists to sell abortifacients(morning after pill). It wasn’t about a corporation forcing a pharmacist to do so on its own. I read that WallyMart has opposed being forced to sell these drugs through its drug stores only to have several states vote to force them to do it. Not all Wal marts in all states sell the drugs for example.
This is about unbridled state power trying to coerce the will and co-opt the consciences of its care givers and pharmacists!
Funny that many who claim to be motivated by their conscience are not any modern-day Henry David Thoreau's. The primed-for-a-fight-to-the-death tax-evaders from New Hampshire readily come to mind.
Should Muslim cabdrivers be able to refuse passengers transporting alcohol?