When people behave badly off the job, should their employers punish them for it? The last several years have seen a number of high-profile cases in which employers have fired employees who did bad things – sometimes very bad things – in their private lives. In this lecture, Dr. MacDonald will investigate the moral nuances of some of those cases and explore what might motivate the broader public to favour employment-based punishment. He will also advance a number of additional, not-entirely hypothetical examples in order to problematize such punishment. Employment-based retribution may be tempting, but we should not welcome it.

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