I work in medicine, and one of the hospitals in our system is the VA. I have literally no interest in serving veterans; people who fight in wars for America pretty much stand and act against everything I believe in. It’s not necessarily that I think these people don’t deserve great healthcare, it’s that I don’t want to be the one giving it to them. I would much rather spend my time serving people from my community who didn’t spend large parts of their lives wrecking other communities.
Sure, some of my patients anywhere are going to be complete assholes. Sure, there are a lot of veterans who weren’t involved in combat (but they did directly aid those in combat at least, right?). Idk, is there a perspective I’m not seeing here? Is it wrong for me to be morally opposed to working for the VA?
I don’t think we even have to go to moral “oughts” if you just genuinely don’t feel like working with veterans. I see it how some therapists don’t want to work with children or something; it’s just a segment of the population you personally don’t want to work with. If you can get around it and it makes your time at work better then why not.