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I'm going to pick another issue and ask the same question. I am asking this same question because opinions on this issue are moderately likely to be polar opposites of the one at hand, and because many people feel just as strongly about it.

A man walks into a local Walmart. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that this Walmart is the only one within quite a long distance that sells the product in question. He walks to the sporting goods department and asks the clerk there (a department manager,) for a box of .38 JHP ammunition (I picked this because it is rarely used in rifles.) The department manager is the only one in the department with the computer security permission to handle ammunition transactions. He is a vocal advocate of gun control, and does not believe that anyone aside from law enforcement and military personnel should be allowed to own guns. Conssitent with his beliefs, he refuses to sell the customer the ammunition.

Does the store manager have the (ethical, not legal) right to fire the sporting goods manager for failing to provide complete customer service? Or should the department head's beliefs be protected by a law that provides him immunity from being fired as long as he processes transactions involving all other merchandise in the store that the computer permits him to sell?



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