Morality Question: Am I being an ass?

[FoxtArt]

Another example: gas station puts the decimal in the wrong stop. Tons of dicks line up to get 90% discounted gas, they self justify it as a deal. YET, compare to a different situation. A man has a hole in his pocket and a dollar bill falls out about once every fifteen seconds. Do you follow him around town, covertly picking each dollar up, and call it a "deal", and call your friends to follow him when you get tired? Similar circumstances. Those that fail this basic ethics test are often the shittiest candidates for friends.

PS...I have encountered this, and I did IMMEDIATLEY notify the station. It's been ~20 years ago. Utterly disgusting the lines of selfish opportunists. If they'll do it there, they'll 100% do it anywhere they think there.is no risk of consequences (and that is all that it boils down to... )

[Oscar77]

Another example: gas station puts the decimal in the wrong stop. Tons of dicks line up to get 90% discounted gas, they self justify it as a deal. YET, compare to a different situation. A man has a hole in his pocket and a dollar bill falls out about once every fifteen seconds. Do you follow him around town, covertly picking each dollar up, and call it a "deal", and call your friends to follow him when you get tired? Similar circumstances. Those that fail this basic ethics test are often the shittiest candidates for friends.

PS...I have encountered this, and I did IMMEDIATLEY notify the station. It's been ~20 years ago. Utterly disgusting the lines of selfish opportunists. If they'll do it there, they'll 100% do it anywhere they think there.is no risk of consequences (and that is all that it boils down to... )

But that isn't what happened here.................... People were buying primers and paying full price for them, along with regular shipping. But that is the issue here, Hazmat wasn't charged.
I'll say this again......
The company charged and got the full price they were asking for................ they didn't lose money that way.
They charged and got regular shipping............they didn't lose money that way.
The only question was that they didn't charge HAZMAT..............so the boxes got shipped "regular" and not "Hazmat."

Now, unless the guy who complained to them about this also called the "hazmat police" nothing happened on that end.
No planes crashed....... no arrests made.......... nothing.

What DID happen is the buyers saved the hazmat fees that they would've paid.


Ginsue:
Good points.............. well said.