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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Thirty-five years of studying moral philosophy certainly helps. An even longer history of seeing horrible consequences flow from perfectly legal actions helps more.
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Here's a philosophical thought experiment.
Employer hires employee to help it achieve certain objectives. Employer pays employee for work employee does to help it achieve its objectives. Employee does something outside the workplace which significantly harms the employer and its objectives. Employer determines that employee has not helped it achieve its objectives and there is a significant risk that employee will not help it achieve those objectives in the future. Employer therefore terminates employee.
Is the employer right to do so? Or is there some moral reason why the employer (and its owners, shareholders, other employees etc) should be required to just bear that damage and continue to employ the employee?