Ethics: Vending Machine Gives You Two, Should You Tell?

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Seriously. If the vending machine spits out two for the price of one, are you morally obligated to tell someone and repay the owner? He is probably some poor ass dude worse off than you. Seriously. This relates to larger ethical questions: if you can do something bad that is small, and get away with it, isn't that the first step toward getting away with something worse, like mass murder? Stalin and Mao did it. They died relatively successful dudes...

 
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Literally slippery slope fallacy.


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Vending machines eat enough money to make up for it.

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No. It is the vending machine that's the problem for working in the consumer's favour.

Plus shit's overpriced in those machines anyway.

 
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Quote from: Christmas dinner = Murder on December 01, 2015, 10:25:52 AM
Literally slippery slope fallacy.
Yeah but isn't something like "if you are dishonest in little things you will find it easier to be dishonest with greater responsibility" from Proverbs?

 
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Fuck no, plus half of the machines steal your money and fail to give you your item anyway. Take all you can get.

 
 
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Quote from: challengerX on December 01, 2015, 11:40:29 AM
It's literally one extra drink. Calm the fuck down.

Kids in Alaska could have drank that drink!

 
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Quote from: Christmas dinner = Murder on December 01, 2015, 10:25:52 AM
Literally slippery slope fallacy.
Not if I can establish causation. But, I am too tired for dat shit. So point taken. For now. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 
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Someday, somewhere
Today you're enjoying a free drink the next you're employing nuclear winter.

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Quote from: DAS FOTZEZERSTÖRER on December 01, 2015, 11:31:55 AM
Quote from: Christmas dinner = Murder on December 01, 2015, 10:25:52 AM
Literally slippery slope fallacy.
Yeah but isn't something like "if you are dishonest in little things you will find it easier to be dishonest with greater responsibility" from Proverbs?

It's Luke, and the parable of the unjust steward isn't really about materialism.

In this example it's perfectly reasonable (and legal) to take the second item. If one really felt bad about it, just give it away.

 
 
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Quote from: Christmas dinner = Murder on December 01, 2015, 12:18:55 PM
Quote from: DAS FOTZEZERSTÖRER on December 01, 2015, 11:31:55 AM
Quote from: Christmas dinner = Murder on December 01, 2015, 10:25:52 AM
Literally slippery slope fallacy.
Yeah but isn't something like "if you are dishonest in little things you will find it easier to be dishonest with greater responsibility" from Proverbs?

It's Luke, and the parable of the unjust steward isn't really about materialism.

In this example it's perfectly reasonable (and legal) to take the second item. If one really felt bad about it, just give it away.
Ah, thanks. I just remember seeing that printed and taped on to one of the mechanics's toolbox at work.

 
 
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Yeah, the ethical thing to do would be to give the free thing away to someone who needs/wants it.

but it's really not a big deal

 
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Yeah, it's not really a big deal. I doubt anyone would actually tell the owner of the machine or make some deal out of it.

 
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"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'."
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I mean, I feel like in a lot of cases where I come across vending machines, I'd actually have no idea who to give it to. Plus, I feel like it's such an insignificant amount of money, that it really wouldn't even be worth the effort to go give it back. Is the worker honestly going to put it back in the machine? Chances are he's just gonna eat it or throw it on someone's desk.

 
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What if...I gave the extra drink to someone else such as a homeless individual and not tell anyone?
Last Edit: December 01, 2015, 08:19:56 PM by slayingold

 
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I think turkey's post kinda says it all but I don't think ethics applies to a vending machine malfunctioning.

 
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