Yesterday's Strib announced a newspaper promotion: special $1 editions of the paper were being sold by volunteers, with money going to help children with serious medical needs. It seemed like an admirable enough promotion, in its way. But I was imagining coming into a rural police station and saying: "I saw a bad accident on one of your little roads. The husband and wife are hurt pretty bad, slowly bleeding away. The kids, two toddlers, are ok, but they are wandering around, and, well, there are swamps nearby. But if you buy my "Be Ethical" button for just two dollars, I'll tell you the first letter of the name of the road where you can find them. I also have coffee cups, t-shirts, lawn chairs...."
What's the difference between moral seriousness and just fooling around?
Posted by shea0017 at September 22, 2004 9:12 AM