An Ethical Dilemma

[Thomk]

I was asked to buy one bag of compost for a friend from a particular store. When I got there it was £7 for one bag or £10 for two bags. So I thought "I don't really need one and wouldn't buy one for £7 or £5 but wouldn't mind a spare bag for £3....."

What I want to do is offer my friend one for £7 or two for £10 (exactly the same as the shop offer) but not one each for £5 each.

Putting aside the fact that I'm being petty and a bit mean, am I on the moral high ground (or at least on the moral level ground)?

 

[howard2107]

No brainer, you went to the shop, your time is not free, they get one for £7 and you get one for £3, if he they want one for £3 then can go and get it themselves.

 

[Katherine]

What would you say if the situation was in reverse?

 

[howard2107]

I was once asked if i would bring a friend 200 fags back from my holidays. I duly returned from said holiday with the requested 200 fags. Friend saw me and asked about his fags, i gave him them and he asked how much i owed him, £46 i replied, bloody hell they are expensive he replied, where the hell have you been to get fags that expensive............Skegness mate, and that is what they cost! his face was a picture.

 

[midlife]

Give him both and expect him to get the beers in

Shaun

 

[threebikesmcginty]

He's a mate, £5 each.

 

[MontyVeda]

No brainer, you went to the shop, your time is not free, they get one for £7 and you get one for £3, if they want one for £3 then can go and get it themselves... wait until @Thomk send them to the shop for a bag of compost

 

[MontyVeda]

I was once asked if i would bring a friend 200 fags back from my holidays. I duly returned from said holiday with the requested 200 fags. Friend saw me and asked about his fags, i gave him them and he asked how much i owed him, £46 i replied, bloody hell they are expensive he replied, where the hell have you been to get fags that expensive............Skegness mate, and that is what they cost! his face was a picture.

I am now trying to guess the year based on the price.... 1997?

 

[howard2107]

I am now trying to guess the year based on the price.... 1997?

about 99, 2000, so your are not far off.

 

[theclaud]

It's not an ethical dilemma at all, it's a rationalisation of your intention to scab £2 off a so-called mate.

 

[slowmotion]

A fiver each. You both get a bargain.

 

[Thomk]

It's not an ethical dilemma at all, it's a rationalisation of your intention to scab £2 off a so-called mate.

What's interesting is that if I had bought one bag (as he requested) he would have had less choice than he now has and yet I feel bad about my petty rationalisation (probably rightly). Also by offering him one for £5 he now has even more choice than if he had gone himself.

 

[TreeHuggery]

never do anything that you'd be ashamed of if you got caught out - what would you do - apart from lie - in the unlikely event he asked for the reciepit ?

 

[Thomk]

He's a mate, £5 each.

OK it's time to come clean. I told a small white lielet.....he isn't a mate, he's my father-in-law.

 

[Thomk]

never do anything that you'd be ashamed of if you got caught out - what would you do - apart from lie - in the unlikely event he asked for the reciepit ?

I never lie!