Rights and Obligations 'Drug use is information that is rightfully private and only in exceptional cases can an employer claim a right to know about such use." I wholly oppose this statement based on moral, as well as practical grounds. This brief considers the moral philosophy of utilitarianism, as well as the implications from which failure to drug test bring to a workplace.

The moral philosophy known as Utilitarianism was "originally proposed in the 19th Century by Jeremy Bentham," Stuart Mill and others (Wikipedia, 2005, ¶1). The idea of this theory is one that suggests "the greatest good for the greatest number." My beliefs with regard to the first sentence are...

The first are the figures that suggest that "drug abuse has been correlated with a decline in corporate profitability and an increase in the occurrence of work-related incidents," as it is "estimated that costs to employers of employee drug abuse can run as high as $60 billion per year" (Cranford, 1998, ¶2). Should the rest of the company's efforts at day-to-day profitability for their employer be sidelined for those who want to abuse drugs? No. Secondly, research scholar George Brenkert found in his study of social and moral character that in fact:
A person must be able not simply to perform a certain activity,…