Look! An Update!

[ase]

Dear Mr. Bush, I hope health care providers refuse to treat you on moral grounds. If you don't believe in treating patients, don't go into medicine. Super headdesk FAIL!

This is probably a really harsh judgment, but it's the head-on collision of two people's rights to hold a moral position. Someone has to give; I'm inclined to force the doctor to make way, especially in regions or health care programs where there isn't a choice to see someone else. Who should enforce "morality"? What is morality? I'm inclined to sacrifice codes of should and should-not to compassion for the currently living.

I don't care what the pedants say, it's winter. Cold, dark winter. The day starts late with gray clouds. Sometimes they don't completely cover the sky. By lunch, they've thinned enough that the sun is only masked by gauzy clouds. After midday, the sun falls back into clouds; the difference between indoors and outdoors is temperature (sometimes) and how high the "ceiling" is. Tuesday night I hitched a ride home with two of my coworkers; we saw two accidents on the road, and then the drizzle tapping on the roof shifted to ice.

Took today and tomorrow off work to kill use-or-lose. Finished 90% of my holiday shopping last night. Today I have spoken less than five sentences to other people all day, finished The Fellowship of the Ring, and made dents in two other books. Fabulous, fabulous introvert paradise.

Monday I got to participate in cool bonus offsite training, and ultimately put in a ten hour day plus dinner after work. Call it twelve hours of coworker interaction. It was good, but a lot of face time. So I am super glad I'm not at work for the the rest of the week. Besides all that holiday stuff to do.

This will be my holiday present to me. There is a strong possibility I will scream like a little girl and take a day off work when Regenesis ships to me. I got bored and made a playlist for this book! Okay, so it's getting redone now that I have Dresden Dolls and Coin-Operated Boy in my life (and by the way, is it just me, or is the Dresden Dolls discography tend to the really creepy?). But the point is, I have inappropriate love for Cherryh's novels. If I finish the other books I'm in the middle of, I'm going to reread Cyteen before Regenesis. I haven't been this excited about a book in a while.

Comments

[ase.livejournal.com]

I disagree with this legislation from square one.

Also, the irony of a Christian Scientist pharmacist - it seems an unlikely profession for someone of that religion.

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

It would have been unlikely, but a CS going into pharmacy _now_ could be paid without ever doing a lick of work...which would seem to be worth going through pharma training.

...kinda like a creationist getting their degree in biology so they can work for the Discovery Institute and say 'I'm a biologist and I say evolution is bunk!"

[ase.livejournal.com]

I don't see that happening, frankly: social pressure is a powerful thing. Also, discrimination happens. (Now there's a nightmare suit: Christian Scientist denied pharmacist position, sues citing 1st amendment rights. Controversy ensues.)

I wouldn't get too hung up on the "Christian Scientist employed at pharmacy, doesn't do work" scenario. There is always, after all, HR and paperwork.

[herewiss13.livejournal.com]

I agree: an actual live person in that position seems unlikely. It's the fact that such a situation now seems openly _permitted_ that's the point. Reductio ad absurdum usually doesn't get played out in real-time...and proponents (to my limited awareness) aren't doing well coming up with a rebuttal stronger than "oh, they wouldn't do that." Which isn't very convincing.

Furthermore, I'll bet the proverbial pharmacist could probably dismiss HR and paperwork on religious grouds too. Lord nows _I_ think most of it is unholy. :P