Employers should not be asking “semi-employees” to transport illegal drugs, regardless of context.
Nitpick, but I don’t think this is literally true and I don’t think you literally believe it, fwiw. I think transporting lifesaving drugs is probably permissible and even ethically obligatory under some ethical frameworks, and I suspect if the two of us were to carefully dialogue about edge cases, we’d agree on the acceptability of situations much weaker than “literally necessary to save someone’s life.”
FWIW my intuition is that even if it’s permissible to illegally transport life-saving medicines, you shouldn’t pressure your employee to do so. Anyway I’ve set up a twitter poll, so we’ll see what others think.
Nitpick, but I don’t think this is literally true and I don’t think you literally believe it, fwiw. I think transporting lifesaving drugs is probably permissible and even ethically obligatory under some ethical frameworks, and I suspect if the two of us were to carefully dialogue about edge cases, we’d agree on the acceptability of situations much weaker than “literally necessary to save someone’s life.”
FWIW my intuition is that even if it’s permissible to illegally transport life-saving medicines, you shouldn’t pressure your employee to do so. Anyway I’ve set up a twitter poll, so we’ll see what others think.
It looks like most of the polled people agree with me. :)