tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post2650884256496409685..comments2024-02-19T08:12:53.815-05:00Comments on The Right Thing: Am I my coworker's pizza keeper?Jeffrey L. Seglinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15648051034425906705noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-21620549803225011802014-03-31T04:55:08.405-04:002014-03-31T04:55:08.405-04:00This is a perfect example of people in groups who ...This is a perfect example of people in groups who think they (can) (must) apply their own moral justifications to everyday situations. Much to-do about absolutely nothing. <br /><br />Charlie Seng Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-89024794593283134142014-03-30T15:39:46.927-04:002014-03-30T15:39:46.927-04:00Jeffrey,
Eating just the toppings at a pizza buff...Jeffrey,<br /><br />Eating just the toppings at a pizza buffet is unethical because it undermines the implied agreement that this customer has with the restaurant. A restaurant takes a calculated gamble when it offers all-you-can-eat buffets that the sale will remain profitable. It bases this gamble on the known costs of food and the physical limits someone can eat in one sitting and it prices its offerring accordingly. By eating only the toppings and forgoing the more filling bread, this customer radically increases the restaurant's risk of an unprofitable sale since they will naturally consume more pizza at a greater cost to the restaurant. <br /><br />The restaurant would be within its rights to refuse to serve such a customer but it is the restaurant's and not the coworker's bone to pick over this behavior. Your reader's calling out his coworker, on a nationally published column no less, appears a bit self-righteous. Perhaps your reader would do well to follow the admonition of not worrying about the speck in his brother's eye while there remains a plank in his own...<br /><br />William Jacobson<br />Anaheim, CA<br /><br />PS. A similar issue arises with all-you-can-eat sushi:<br />http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/17/business/la-fi-lazarus-20110218William Jacobsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21166579.post-67391601103903829452014-03-30T11:16:05.325-04:002014-03-30T11:16:05.325-04:00The woman is trying to remain moral with her contr...The woman is trying to remain moral with her contract to God to abstain from bread but is failing to be moral in her contract to the buffet owner in eating what you take. She is eating the most expensive part of his offering and eliminating the most filling part. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com