RE: MD and the LIE DETECTOR test

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 19:05:06 BST

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    Mel,

    Since I am a nervous sort of person, I've never been able to imagine
    passing one, even without lying, so I too have always been bothered. It
    could be that they can take this into account, but I'm not inclined to
    trust them.

    My view is that if employers requires a lie detector test, or a urinalysis
    for that matter, then it is immoral to sign up with them, as well as it
    being immoral for them to require the test. Pretty much for reason (2), the
    Giant dominating the individual.

    - Scott

    > [Original Message]
    > From: ml <mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com>
    > To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    > Date: 9/7/2004 12:12:42 PM
    > Subject: MD and the LIE DETECTOR test
    >
    > All:
    >
    > What is the morality of a lie detector test as
    > a pre-employment test?
    >
    > It seems to me, for questions concerning your
    > opinions and personal views, to be:
    > 1) a physical level device placed in 'judgement'
    > over a biological being.
    > 2) a social level attempt at dominating the
    > intellectual function of a person.
    >
    > The very existence of the "test" bothered me
    > when I first heard of it at age five. Seemed that it
    > was somehow wrong, not unlike the feeling I
    > had at learning about the guilliotine or the rack.
    >
    > thanks--mel
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