I have many pet peeves. If I was to write them all out, the list would probably be longer than I am tall. One of my big ones is people with an annoying air of moral superiority. Now, I can somewhat stand people who always think they’re right if they’re just hanging around doing nothing in particular. They’re still annoying, but they’re also mostly harmless. It’s the people who actually have some modicum of power over others that I really hate.
Take, for example, pharmacists. Specifically, pharmacists in Washington State who refuse to fill prescriptions for the emergency contraceptive Plan B because they have a moral objection to the pill, contraceptives, or people who have unprotected sex and have to rely on a morning-after pill to make sure they don’t get pregnant. Specific enough?
Anyways, there’s been an ongoing debate here in Washington regarding the rights of said pharmacists. Essentially, should these pharmacists be allowed to refuse service to people because their conscience says so? I’m not sure what the current situation is, but my opinion is this: if your job is causing you moral dilemmas that interfere with your ability to do carry out your responsibilities, you need to find a new line of work. Plain and simple. If you don’t want to find a new job, then swallow your pride and do what the customer wants. I mean, if an employee at a movie theater refused to sell tickets to a certain movie on the grounds that said movie contains sex and violence which he finds morally reprehensible, he’d be canned pretty quickly. Same goes for any job.
It seems to me that these pharmacists think they’re above the most important rule in the service industry: the customer is always right. So what if they don’t want to get pregnant? So what if they didn’t use protection? Judge them on your own time and give them the damn pill already. You’re paid to dispense medicine, not moral judgment.
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