1. Coats wasn’t fired because he was using a legal drug, marijuana, for a legitimate purpose for which he had a prescription. He was fired for violating workplace policy.
Coats was fired for violating workplace policy, not for using legally prescribed marijuana.
2. An employer isn’t able to fire a person who has anxiety because they are taking the correct medication to deal with the issue.
A person taking the correct medication for their anxiety is unable to be fired by an employer.
3. Employees don’t get fired for going out and having a few beers after work because alcohol is legal, but in Colorado so is marijuana.
In Colorado, employees are prevented from being fired since alcohol and marijuana are legal.
4. Coats shouldn’t have been fired because he was trying to treat the pain he endured on a daily basis.
Coats’ effort to treat the pain he endured on a daily basis should have kept him employed.
5. It’s not fair to discriminate against him because he was able to ease the pain of his multiple spasms by using marijuana.
His use of marijuana eased the pain of his multiple spasms, making it unfair to discriminate against him.
6. Coats wasn’t harming anyone at his job because he was smoking marijuana but he was doing so on his own time and not at work.
Coats only smoked marijuana in his own time, not at work, preventing harm to anyone at his job.
7. Omar Gonzalez didn’t penetrate deep into the White House because of the swift actions of Secret Service agents.
The swift actions of Secret Service agents prevented Omar Gonzalez from getting further into the White House.
8. The Secret Service isn’t being compelled to explain its actions because of the way it responded to the breach of the White House, but how the breach occurred is under question.
The Secret Service is questioning how the breach occurred instead of being compelled to explain their actions and response to the breach of the White House.
9. Secret Service chief Julia Pierson won’t be fired because of her testimony before Congress yesterday. Her incompetence might cost her her job though.
Although Secret Service chief Julia Pierson’s incompetence might cost her her job, her testimony before Congress yesterday avoided her dismissal.
10. Secret Service agents didn’t use deadly force against the intruder because he was carrying a knife with a 4-inch blade.
The intruder’s small knife with a 4-inch blade kept the Secret Service agents from using deadly force against him.
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Counterintuitive Fall 2022 
1. Beautiful
2. Very nice, except you don’t mean to identify an employee’s inability. The inability should be the employer’s.
3. Not at all. I hope this helps: In Colorado, laws prevent employers from firing employees for legal alcohol and marijuana use.
4. Not quite. His good performance should have kept him employed. But he shouldn’t have been fired for legally treating his pain.
5. Odd causality here, BV. Did easing his pain make it unfair to fire him?
6. Misplaced “only.” Also, it’s hard to say that smoking prevented harm. I know what you mean, but this exercise is about PREVENTING misunderstanding. May I suggest: Coats harmed no one by smoking marijuana on his own time.
7. Nice!
8. Nice.
9. Almost.
10. Really? Were they too threatened by the knife to use deadly force? That’s how it sounds.