What is the ruling on working for a company that collects defunct electronic devices—including television sets, which are predominantly used for reprehensible things—and sells their components, given the suspicion of aiding in wrongdoing and the company's system that imposes mandatory health insurance deducted from one's salary?
Firstly: There is no harm in collecting malfunctioning electronic devices and extracting raw materials from them for sale, even if they are used in the manufacture of televisions. This is because it is not possible to definitively prohibit the sale of televisions, due to the large number of people who purchase them for permissible purposes. The sold components are not primarily intended for the work, and assisting in the sale of televisions to people is an indirect and unintended form of assistance.
Secondly: Commercial insurance is prohibited in all its forms, but compulsory insurance is an exception (the sin lies with the one who imposed it), as is health insurance due to necessity (if treatment costs are high). If insurance is deducted from an employee's salary without their choice, it is a type of compulsory insurance, and no sin is incurred by the employee because of it.
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