Because sacking someone undeservedly is not a good thing to do. Although, depending on the circumstances, about which I know little, she could have crossed the line of what is appropriate and deserve the action. It’s possible there was more to it than was reported in the brief article linked in the OP.
Looks like there is more to it.
Yes, it’s an assumption that it’s okay to ask. Asking doesn’t hurt. What harm was done by her making the request?
I could ask a child if they'd like some heroin.
I see little difference morally, though in practice there's a big difference.
Heroin actually does something.
You do know what the word "pusher" means I'm sure.
This is not, for comparison, the same as asking if they'd like a cup of tea either, just to get some balance in the argument.
Do I think that pushing religion is the same as pushing heroin? no. but it's nearer than asking something that is completely innocuous. Religion changes lives, unfortunatly.
I don’t think that a nurse asking if a patient would like her to pray for them is the equivalent of the nurse wanting to be or acting like a preacher. I think you are seeing things that aren’t there.
Look, if you are ill, and you want to be prayed for (why the reason escapes me) you
routinely ask for a priest, or whatever.
Not a nurse.
There are of course many examples of this in real life.
I think your response is completely over the top. The nurse has ‘victimized’ her patients by asking them if they would like her to perform an additional service at no charge? She might ‘infect’ them with the meme for religion? You talk as if they’ve never been exposed to it elsewhere!
No my response is not over the top IMO. I would find offensive that she might assume I am of the nurses faith, or have any truck with faith.
The nurse is not "victimising" the patient.
The religion is doing that after already infecting the nurse.
The nurse can't help it. The religion has an expansionist drive, like malaria. It seeks to infect, breed and also reinfect whenever it can. That's a fact.
Yes they might have been exposed to it elsewhere, but the neither the nurse, nor the meme knows that. It's irrelevant. It must breed, or confirm that the victim is already infected.
I look at it this way, it’s a reasonable conjecture that some of her patients would appreciate the gesture.
Of course, and I agree with you. However in that case the asking woouldn't be needed maybe.
It doesn’t harm those who aren’t interested.
It seeks to get them interested. This is not just asking, it's sly preaching. That's my point.
They can decline without any repercussion.
Like if it's an accepted practice then the response from the nurse might in the future be "well go to hell".
You might find it difficult to absolutely deny that that might not cause some stress, maybe just not in the place you are expecting it. Yes? If this became accepted practice.
OTOH, I don’t think it would appropriate for a patient to make the request.
No, but the correct response would be "I'll find the preacher for you", surely?
I think it’s okay for her to offer but not okay for them to ask because I don’t think it would be appropriate for the patient to make any request of their nurse regarding what something to be done during their off hours, whether it be prayer or something else entirely.
See above. This is reversing the argument. It doesn't do much for your case in point, I feel.
Also
Christians hover like vultures over sick people in hospitals. They do not have an automatic right to push their empty dogma onto others, especially the vulnerable. If the woman concerned wants to preach, let her become a preacher.
from
a coment on the BBC site.
The original article, read it.
nurse puts god first.
