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Today, four ethics questions. The first is directly stolen from The Ethicist column in Sunday's New York Times.

I recognized a friend in a short video clip on an amateur pornography Web site. She is now a medical professional, wife and mother, and I doubt that she posted it. (Perhaps a former boyfriend did.) I think she would want to know it's there, but I fear the effect on our friendship if I tell her. Maybe she's better off not knowing: It is probably tough to get such a thing removed. Should I tell?
 
Yes, you should tell.
 
No, you should not tell.
 
You should tell her anonymously.
 
 
 
Is it ethical to steal an ethics question from the New York Times? (Choose the best answer.)
 
No, it is not ethical.
 
Yes, because you are saying you stole it, so it's not really theft.
 
Yes, because you are stealing only the question and not the answer given by the Times employee.
 
 
 
You are filling out an expense report for a trip out of town. You've lost your taxi receipt for a ride you remember cost $40. Your company is a stickler for "no receipt, no reimbursement." You do have a blank, unnumbered and undated taxicab receipt. You know that your company expects receipts to be actual, obtained on the scene, and makes no allowances for something like this. What should you do?
 
Fill out the blank one as though it was the real receipt and hand it in without guilt.
 
Fill out the blank one but penalize yourself a few bucks for your error.
 
Eat the expense. This is ethically wrong.
 
 
 
Same situation but you don't have a blank taxi receipt. Then it occurs to you that you could get the $40 by claiming an 80-mile business trip in your own car. You never made the trip, but it would be plausible and you would not be questioned. Do you submit the trip, to get the money that is rightfully owed to you?
 
Sure. No harm, no foul.
 
Yes, but make it a 60-mile trip, penalizing yourself a few bucks for your error.
 
No, that's dishonest.
 
 
 
A close friend confesses to you in confidence that her husband is not the father of her 1-year-old child. The husband, who is also your close friend, doesn't know this. A year later, this couple divorces, and the father is making child-support payments he can barely afford.

Do you tell him what you know? (Choose the best answer.)
 
Yes, this is something he has a right to know.
 
No, because the only important thing is the welfare of the child, who might well be hurt if the husband contests paternity and seeks to end child support.
 
No, because your friend told you this in confidence.
 
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