AMonger
Veteran Expediter
You're eating at a breakfast buffet. You reach for some bacon, and accidentally drop some into the grits or oatmeal. You retrieve it, and there's no sign it was ever there.
You look over, and there's a Jewish couple who are either eating from the buffet or contemplating it (this seems implausible, given that most stuff on a breakfast buffet isn't kosher itself or comes in contact with foods that aren't, but go with it for the sake of discussion).
Do you tell them so they know not to eat it, or figure "no harm, no foul" and not tell them?
Second, you're a foreman at a plant of some sort. The team in your town is in the World Series. On the radio, the station announces a pair of free tickets to the first couple people who show up at a certain location with a hard hat painted in team colors and logo. Your shop just happens to have a couple of these. A couple workers hear this and implore you to allow them to grab them and go. You roll up your sleeves to take their place on the line while they're gone, tell them to drive carefully and hurry back, and they disappear, each returning later holding aloft a pair of tickets.
Do they each have some sort of ethical obligation to share his other ticket? The hard hats were the company's, not theirs. They were on the clock when they were allowed to leave. You and their fellow workers had to work harder to cover for them while they were gone.
Is it unreasonable to expect them to keep only one of the tickets and put the other into some sort of raffle for the whole shop?
You look over, and there's a Jewish couple who are either eating from the buffet or contemplating it (this seems implausible, given that most stuff on a breakfast buffet isn't kosher itself or comes in contact with foods that aren't, but go with it for the sake of discussion).
Do you tell them so they know not to eat it, or figure "no harm, no foul" and not tell them?
Second, you're a foreman at a plant of some sort. The team in your town is in the World Series. On the radio, the station announces a pair of free tickets to the first couple people who show up at a certain location with a hard hat painted in team colors and logo. Your shop just happens to have a couple of these. A couple workers hear this and implore you to allow them to grab them and go. You roll up your sleeves to take their place on the line while they're gone, tell them to drive carefully and hurry back, and they disappear, each returning later holding aloft a pair of tickets.
Do they each have some sort of ethical obligation to share his other ticket? The hard hats were the company's, not theirs. They were on the clock when they were allowed to leave. You and their fellow workers had to work harder to cover for them while they were gone.
Is it unreasonable to expect them to keep only one of the tickets and put the other into some sort of raffle for the whole shop?
