1.6.1 Respond with the context of people's decisions and choices in mind.

Resist reflexive traditional responses that punish decisions and choices, such as taking additional personal or sick time to address illness, or grieve the trauma of COVID-19 or policing violence in the BIPOC community. Recognize that policies that punish not taking an action (e.g., housing, a job, etc.) but that do not allow for consideration of tradeoffs (see 1.4) may disproportionately harm those already facing adversity (e.g., cutting off benefits for a person who is immunocompromised and so doesn’t take the first job available, which is as a cashier in a busy grocery store).

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