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more moral tales
By Susan C. Price
[Susan “spoke” today’s column 10 years ago tomorrow, on May 25, 2013. It was titled Fourth Monday Susan Speaks. It’s still rewardingly readable and thought-provoking, and still interesting in conveying Susan’s circumstances at the time.]
The following made me think that:
a. what is so simple to me is NOT CLEAR to many,
b. maybe none of this...life...is simple,
c. i have no business discussing ethics....
What would YOU have decided?
More urban parking “moral” dilemmas:
i told the tale of neighbors in a congested urban apartment area who (assumption) fraudulently obtained an “exclusive” handicapped curbside parking space.
Here’s another parking choice. I take a Zumba dance class twice weekly on a weekday morning.
Now I notice that the dance studio requests we use the paid/metered parking everyday, instead of the residential neighbors public street parking.
HMMM? What is fair?
If you live in an urban area, and you have limited parking that belongs to you, should visitors to your area NOT park on the “public” street if they can avoid it?
Ethics? Self preservation?—At what point should a neighbor “report” a neighbor to “the authorities”? When is it appropriate or safe to “tattle”?
The neighbors (same ones as got the handicapped space, natch) are “hoarders.” Building service folk who visit their unit, neighbors who have delivered their vacation mail, and, once, the local Public Health official, deem their piles of stuff that fill their front hall and the rest of their apartment and patio...to be a “fire hazard.” The building owners don’t report them...Rent Control is strict here, the tenants would allege they were being forced out/harassed for no reason, and it could be a long and fruitless battle.
I live right above them. Were a fire to occur (they do not smoke…nor have a fireplace), I would likely be first and most affected.
Do I have a self preservation duty to report them to Public Health? I don’t think this rises to the level of “real and imminent danger.” What do you think?
By Susan C. Price
[Susan “spoke” today’s column 10 years ago tomorrow, on May 25, 2013. It was titled Fourth Monday Susan Speaks. It’s still rewardingly readable and thought-provoking, and still interesting in conveying Susan’s circumstances at the time.]
The following made me think that:
a. what is so simple to me is NOT CLEAR to many,
b. maybe none of this...life...is simple,
c. i have no business discussing ethics....
What would YOU have decided?
- President of Penn State: “Hmmm, should this guy continue molesting boys...or?”
- A Religious Bishop: “Hmmm, should i let this guy go on having access to young people, when i have credible information that he has violated them, or should I expel him, or call the cops?”
- Steubenville Teens: “Hmm...does it matter that the girl was drinking…when i violated her body...and took off all her clothes?” “What makes a great video to pass along?”
More urban parking “moral” dilemmas:
i told the tale of neighbors in a congested urban apartment area who (assumption) fraudulently obtained an “exclusive” handicapped curbside parking space.
Here’s another parking choice. I take a Zumba dance class twice weekly on a weekday morning.
- The dance studio is on a commercial block with metered (pay) spaces.
- The dance studio has a small free parking lot, but cars must park in “tandem” (you need to be ready to move to let others out. a pain).
- Around the corner is a residential block of apartments/condos with street parking that is only restricted on Thursdays and Fridays.
Now I notice that the dance studio requests we use the paid/metered parking everyday, instead of the residential neighbors public street parking.
HMMM? What is fair?
If you live in an urban area, and you have limited parking that belongs to you, should visitors to your area NOT park on the “public” street if they can avoid it?
Ethics? Self preservation?—At what point should a neighbor “report” a neighbor to “the authorities”? When is it appropriate or safe to “tattle”?
The neighbors (same ones as got the handicapped space, natch) are “hoarders.” Building service folk who visit their unit, neighbors who have delivered their vacation mail, and, once, the local Public Health official, deem their piles of stuff that fill their front hall and the rest of their apartment and patio...to be a “fire hazard.” The building owners don’t report them...Rent Control is strict here, the tenants would allege they were being forced out/harassed for no reason, and it could be a long and fruitless battle.
I live right above them. Were a fire to occur (they do not smoke…nor have a fireplace), I would likely be first and most affected.
Do I have a self preservation duty to report them to Public Health? I don’t think this rises to the level of “real and imminent danger.” What do you think?
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This 2013 column of Susan’s “made me [too, like her] think that:
ReplyDelete… b. maybe none of...life...is simple.”
But, unlike her, I think she has lots of “c. … business discussing ethics.”