Originally Posted by
Anglo Large Clawed Otter
I don't think you owe any obligation to said airline under such a hypothetical, but there certainly is a duty to share with the FlyerTalk Community that has been so helpful in assuaging your ethical concerns.
Originally Posted by
Cheerfulflyer
We need details of the case: what is being done, to what end, with what motivation, how etc to really do a moral analysis. However if you don't want to share you can reflect on: how about an obligation to oneself for failing to do the honest deed?
But that's the beauty of this hypothetical windfall. I did nothing to receive it. Oops, I mean the hypothetical individual did nothing. It's purely an error. An astounding error!
Or, maybe, just maybe there's another explanation. If one were, say, an egotistical megalomaniac (not that I am, mind you), one might be tempted to suppose this is NOT a mistake at all, but a gift as it were. Yes, THAT must be it! CO is trying to curry favor with me. Oops, I mean with the hypothetical individual.
I shan't tell you any more, but I will provide a clue in the form of a one act play.
Act 1, Scene 1:
The foggy docks of Cleveland. In the distance a foghorn can be heard.
Sherlock Holmes and Scott O'Leary enter stage left.
Holmes: "O'Leary! Tomorrow morning, evil incarnate will sail on 'The Star G' out of Port Cleveland."
O'Leary: "Egads, Holmes. What should we do!?"
Holmes: "Alas, there's nothing we
can do, O'Leary."
O'Leary: "Whadda mean, Holmes?"
Holmes: "It's too late. He'll be enjoying his ill-gotten status and there's nothing we can do about it."
O'Leary: "Nothing, Holmes?"
Holmes: "'Fraid not, old friend. It's printed on his boarding pass."
O'Leary: "Drat it all!"
Curtain.
RNE, saying, "Who else gives you rotters an original play in this godforsaken forum? I ask ya! Oh, what an artist am I."
P.S. TSMRSRNE and I are off to FLL in FC on the morrow. Pip pip, cheerio and all that rot.