joseph@orstcs.UUCP (03/15/86)
If the employers doing lie detector or drug testing had the creativity
to recognize the uncreativity of the applicants who would submit themselves
to this infringement of their privacy, then the drug testing or lie detection
would never have been invoked in the first place.
Rather than passing judgement, let's cut these employers, employees, and job
applicants some slack. Uncreative people lack the ability to recognize
creativity in others, or the lack of creativity in themselves or others
(by definition). Further, we can ignore rebuttals to the above points
from such uncreatives, by this very nature.
For the information of interested readers, I am NOT a user of illicit drugs,
and break no laws concerning drugs. I do not abuse legal drugs either.
I have other reasons for ignoring lie detecting employers.
Finally, to demonstrate the absurdity of evaluating the abusive nature of
a drug by its legality, I offer a quote from a recent movie. I don't know
the name of the movie, and may inadvertantly perturb the exact quote.
...One character is rolling a joint in the presence of another, who says:
"Damn it! Why can't you just take Valium, like normal people."
-Joseph Albert
PS If we can legally destroy ourselves with nuclear weapons, nuclear waste,
food additives, air pollution, and chemical dumps, then why not with
heroin (just another chemical dump).
Why don't we all choose survival?