"Vices of the Self Righteous"
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Originally Posted by postiveadjustment
The testing is not violating human rights in my opinion. It's non-discriminatory and provides protection for the general population that, for example, your kids in kindergarden are not supervised by drug addicts.
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Statistical justification to establish such premises is always neglected and those whom you casually refer to as "drug addicts" are not dysfunctional simply because they engage in behaviours in their personal time for which another may disagree.
During alcohol prohibition those such as your ilk would be slandering the speak easy attendants as drunks, boozers, and moral reprobates based upon a self endowed absolution for judgement.
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Originally Posted by postiveadjustment
It's possible for everybody to get a "clean" test by waiting a sufficient period of time (max. a couple of months). Furthermore, it adds a disincentive for people who use illegal substances.
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To further justify the depravity for uniform fetishes by puritanical megalomaniacs, state's law is referenced without objectivity for its legal positivism - a pretentiousness that law, simply because they have been instituted, represents some ethical absolute.
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Originally Posted by postiveadjustment
I think it's a hazzle, and I would personally prefer not to work for a company that does "random drug tests", but I think it should be legal and that it is okay for the employer to have that piece of information.
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The Department of Transportation has specific criteria for someone to be added to a pool for random drug tests and that specific criteria is for "safety" when one is responsible for the transport of other persons (pilots, train conductors, air traffic controllers, etc.) or for "security".
** Fundamentals of Prejudice **
The ability of private institutions to hire or fire at will is based upon free association and one may be dismissed for race, ethnicity, or creed - perhaps when a corporation is sold.
Only the government has policies against such actions which it also exacts upon its subcontractors, and the government also has policies against random drug tests unless those individuals fit into specific task categories.
** Incidence and Bias **
The volume of drugs used by society and its effects contradicts, by statistics, an assertion from those who deem drugs to be catastrophic with a high degree of significance.
Verily, the creation of criminal organizations, the economic and personal devastation caused by prosecution of those who become expunged from employment and alienated from family, and by the siphon of public funds to preserve an authoritarian power structure with its help itself to a pay check business model, is more detrimental to society than is relying upon personal volition to recover from a behavioural vice.
The economic sabotage arranged by congress and the banking system is exponentially more to blame for personal loss than casual drug use - excluding prosecution.