• Sidhean@piefed.social
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    if old people bother me

    weird way to say “if I hold demonstrably anti-science positions on old people that will hurt them if i am not prevented from doing so” but yeah, basically. You shouldn’t work in an old-folks’ home if you’re gonna take your ignorance out on them. You’re probably fine to… i dunno… be a trashman or a programmer or something. It would just be irresponsible of both you and society for you to work with old folk in this case.

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        2 days ago

        I guess. If part of your duties include giving medical advice or arranging medical procedures for people including pregnant people, it would be irresponsible both of the ignorant doctor and society to let that doctor administer anti-science medical advice, yeah.

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          It seems incredibly naive to assume that any professionals personal views don’t diverge from the accepted work place stance.

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            Look, if this hypothetical person can control their Conservative urges enough to read modern science pertaining to their job and then act on it, and NOT act on their own beliefs, then i suppose, in a hypothetical modern, very accepting world in which this ignorance doesn’t fester into fascism and in which all grievances are addressed fairly and fully, i suppose you might have some vague philosophical point and it wouldn’t be irresponsible.

            It seems incredibly naive to assume that no professionals personal views conflict with work place stances.

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              I’m sure it can and does. And theres ways of dealing with people acting on those such as dismissal. However, simply expressing those views is not a reason to fire someone. I do agree that’s it’s probably difficult for some to keep their personal views and professional ones separate, but that’s their responsibility to.

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                I appreciate you retreating to a more defensible mott. Swaying public opinion on a matter as a professional in a relevant field is allowing personal views through a professional mask, so we can agree that was an issue regardless.