My neighbor is out for a couple weeks and has asked me to pick up his mail.
He received a movie from NetFlix. Would it be unethical for me to look at the title of the movie?
What about to watch it if it is a movie I would like to see?
The movie is “Dan in Reel Life”. Does this change your feelings about either of your answers?
In other news, a supermarket near where I like to have lunch decided to tow people who park there and do not go inside. It was done out of spite because they told the place next door that their parking lot would not be large enough.
The supermarket’s parking lot is never even close to half full, so parking there does not block an actual customer. Also, those parking there for lunch park in the spaces furthest from the supermarket itself. The few times I have actually gone inside (mostly because it was close to where I went for lunch) the store was empty.
Today, they were threatening to tow everyone. So, I went inside and found the cheapest item I could possibly use. It was a container of Tic Tacs, 85cents plus 2cents tax. I charged an 87cent item for spite. Credit cards take 25cents per transaction plus 5% of the overall sales, meaning they would take 29cents out of the sale, leaving the supermarket with a sale of 56cents to cover cost of the item, plus keeping it there, plus expenses. Was that wrong?
If I say it was a Safeway supermarket, does that change your feelings?
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