Your assistant comes back from this suggestion saying she is pleading persuasively, “Can’t she [or he] at least see me for a few minutes now?” Her husband, a truck driver, has asked her to accompany...

Your assistant comes back from this suggestion saying she is pleading persuasively, “Can’t she [or he] at least see me for a few minutes now?” Her husband, a truck driver, has asked her to accompany him on a long distance trip, and she fears if she does not go with him, he will take someone else. She wants to know whether it is too dangerous for her to go with the headache such as it is. You are genuinely concerned about her but also conscious of the full waiting room outside your door. What considerations of a caring response and the claims of distributive justice come into conflict in your deliberation about what to do? What will you do? Why?