shouldn't non essential businesses be closed during dangerous weather?

Question

I live were this isn't much extreme weather but we are having blizzard comming in today. Most people here don't know how to drive in this weather (sleet) and there are many accidents on the freeways adding to the traffic problems we have here everyday. I work at a store that sells nothing that couldn't wait till tomorrow or the next day, no one is going to die from not getting a tv or computer today. I think that non essential businesses should close for the occasional bad weather day (just like schools do) to insure the safety of their workers, many of them which have to drive a great distance. I have to take the bus to work today. It is raininy and windy and very cold for us here and I have to walk 2 blocks to the unsheltered busstop and wait for a bus and then walk a block to the store. I will arive wet and cold and probably end up getting sick again. Anything that I would do today could be done tomorrow or the next day, no one will die. Only essential jobs should be done

Answer 1

Hell YES!

No amount of "profits" that a business could make are worth a single human life that could have been saved by staying closed during dangerous weather conditions.