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Putting a rocket into orbit requires a good understanding of science and reality. There is no actual scientific proof that occasionally using marijuana is a bad
by gitfan86 4y ago
Putting a rocket into orbit requires a good understanding of science and reality. There is no actual scientific proof that occasionally using marijuana is a bad thing that would make a potential employee a bad employee.
Maybe politicians don't like that reality, but they are not the ones putting people into orbit.
- nonethewiser 4y agoTo be clear, you think they are worse at building and launching rockets because they drug test employees? That seems like a stretch.
- gitfan86 4y agoI didn't say that at all
- nonethewiser 4y agoSo you agree that is not sound reasoning?
- gitfan86 4y agoNo, implying that I think that "they are worse at building and launching rockets because they drug test employees" when I never said that at all is not sound reasoning, it is terrible reasoning actually
- robotresearcher 4y agoThe traditional explanation is that drug users can be blackmailed and security compromised by adversaries threatening to reveal federally prohibited behavior. It seems antiquated. Edit: as cannabis use is transitioning to decriminalized, testing specifically for that will become antiquated. Standing crimes of course will remain leverage for bad guys.
- gpm 4y agoEh, I buy that "habitually committing crimes" makes it easier for adversaries to blackmail you. Seems like evergreen logic that doesn't get antiquated.
- matthewdgreen 4y agoIt's an evergreen that can be easily repaired by eliminating silly categories of crime and social conventions. See e.g., the old restrictions on allowing gay people to hold security clearances, which stemmed from the fact that it was easy to blackmail gay people in a society that (foolishly) kept penalizing people for being gay. We lost Alan Turing because of stupid crap like that, god only knows what else we lost.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> See e.g., the old restrictions on allowing gay people to hold security clearances, which stemmed from the fact that it was easy to blackmail gay people AFAIK, they did not stem from that fact, that was a later rationalization from keeping them around. They stemmed from the fact that being gay was seen as a serious moral failing in its own right, and indicative of propensity for other moral failings.
- rlt 4y agoOn top of that, you should fire bad employees because they’re bad, not because they do drugs and may or may not be bad.