I suspected a bottle of wine in a local store was being offered at a good price. My investigations show that competitors sell the wine for double the price. Should I tell the store?
Buy as much as you like. The shop will understand the laws of supply and demand and your actions are likely to cause the price to be readjusted. You could even sell some of the wine yourself and offset the cost.
Paul Rodriguez, via e-mail
I am on a gap year and teaching in a school abroad. I am the same age as some of my pupils. Would it be ethical for me to have a relationship with one of my students?
Surely, given the lack of an age gap, you would want to do all you can to maintain your authority. Why muddy the waters further by entering into an inappropriate relationship?
Christine Robinson, via e-mail
My 80-year-old husband is in a nursing home. A doctor says that trying to care for him will shorten my life. I am a teacher. Where does my moral duty lie: caring, teaching or self-preservation?
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Ensure that your husband is in a home that you are happy with and visit him as often as possible. He will be well looked after and you will be able to hold down a job, look after your husband and hopefully have some quality of life.
Name withheld, via e-mail
Is one within one’s moral rights, when encountering a busker singing out of tune, to remove a small sum of money from his collecting hat by way of compensation?
You’d be stealing from the busker and the people who left the money. They left money because they appreciated his efforts and wanted to reward him, not as an insurance policy in case he offended someone else.
Mark Hall, London
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