Hypothetical moral question.

[th3w01f]

Here’s a question presented to me by my wife this evening and I know how I feel about it but I’m curious about how others feel.

Here’s the situation. A couple is paying for their child to take a “class”; now this class isn’t cheap and runs about $100 a month for their child to attend. The father feels this would also be a valuable class for him to attend but sadly they can’t afford it at the moment.

His solution is to ask the wife’s parents to pay for the child’s class and instead use the money to pay for the himself.

Now this is just splitting hairs but it seems to me the honest thing to do is to tell the grandparents that they will be paying for the child’s class and not the fathers and then use their own money to pay for the father’s classes. The whole way it was presented just seems kind of underhanded to me, especially since the adult price (that the grandparents will be paying) is higher than the kids price.

I don’t know, it just makes me feel kind of dirty but maybe that’s because I have a Larue bumper sticker and not an Obama one. J

[th3w01f]

Ok, I guess that was pretty specific and I apologize if the other party is on this site.... although I doubt it with all the left wing bumper stickers.

[stevelkinevil]

seems like intentional and flagrant deception, and as such unacceptable.

[Monky]

If you're not honest, it could bite you in the ass when you ACTUALLY have a NEED and not a WANT.

[T-Giv]

^ Second that.

[Irving]

You explained it one way that seemed more honest, then the last sentence you switched.

So are you saying it'd be okay the way you explained it, but they are doing it the other way?

[th3w01f]

You explained it one way that seemed more honest, then the last sentence you switched.

So are you saying it'd be okay the way you explained it, but they are doing it the other way?

I didn't mean to switch. I meant it's kind of splitting hairs to say can you pay $100 for this and then take the money and use it else ware while you're still paying the original $100. In this case I think it's more like asking for $140 while you're paying the original $100 so may not be splitting hairs.

Even if the amounts were identical I still would have approached it differently with the grandparents. If i bought my kids something for $100 and then decided I wanted the same thing but didn't have the $$$, I wouldn't ask the grandparents to buy the original $100 item for the kids so I could buy my own.

[Fmedges]

I hate asking for money so I would just not attend instead of asking for anything. Lying or deceiving people is shitty, especially to people who would be kind enough to give you money for anything.

[Irving]

I hate asking for money so I would just not attend instead of asking for anything. Lying or deceiving people is shitty, especially to people who would be kind enough to give you money for anything.

This is my stance by the way.

[sniper7]

Im sure if they REALLY wanted to afford it, they could. Tv cell phones internet etc could be put off until the class was done.