re: #491 Aceofwhat?

This is fun…i do believe this is the first time that i’ve agreed with Walter while disagreeing with SFZ! People who want salt regulation but don’t want employers to be allowed to drug-test = people who have more ‘splaining to do…

Walter is, as usual, accusing ‘the left’ of a carefully selected set of beliefs. Since I have never gone on record as having a thing to say about salt (except that I think it’s yummy), I don’t think I need to respond to his crapola.

Also, I have nowhere said, I don’t think, that employers ‘shouldn’t be allowed’ to drug test. That’s the conservative fallacy—if you disapprove of it, you must want the government to ban it!

I think drug testing is stupid, invasive, insulting, and a waste of a company’s money. I also think that it is part of a general historical pattern of paternalism and hostility toward employees by big companies, which has manifested itself in a variety of ways, some of which are now illegal.

That’s all rather different from saying “I think it should be illegal”.