Serious Ethically Serious Questions... Seriously

[Lynx]

This is a thread for only really serious ethics questions. You know, the ones that keep you awake at night.

Take this one, from Egg-noggin in Deepinaharta, Tennessee.

"Dear Lynx: I like egg nog, and I really like it in this cool cup a friend sent me from Arizona because the dark brown of the inside of the cup sets off the off-white of the egg nog really well. Unfortunately... it's a Starbucks cup. Most of my family is die-hard coffee drinkers, and using a cup from St*rb*cks is sacrilege to them."

Dear Egg-noggin: If you're not part of their coffee cult, go ahead and use the cup. Just don't put that disgusting coffee in it. Style always trumps the cult beliefs of family, unless they are trying to kill you to get rid of what they see as a blasphemy.

Also, please send a picture of that cup. It sounds nice.

 

[Lynx]

Here's one from Dust-Busted-And-Disgusted, in Windy Springs, OK.

"Dear Lynx: I was vacuuming and I ran over the cord, which killed the vacuum cleaner. Did I just murder the vacuum, since I ran it over the cord? Or was it assisted suicide, since it chewed its own cord up?"

Dear DBAD: It was a natural part of the life cycle of a vacuum cleaner. They are all destined to end up that way.

My advice is to get a small dog to replace the vacuum. We got a Yorkshire terrier and named it Dyson, and our lives are so much easier now! When we call "Dyson!" he doesn't look at us. He looks at the floor in front of our feet. Gotta love that dog.

 

[seoulsearch]

This is a thread for only really serious ethics questions. You know, the ones that keep you awake at night.

Take this one, from Egg-noggin in Deepinaharta, Tennessee.

"Dear Lynx: I like egg nog, and I really like it in this cool cup a friend sent me from Arizona because the dark brown of the inside of the cup sets off the off-white of the egg nog really well. Unfortunately... it's a Starbucks cup. Most of my family is die-hard coffee drinkers, and using a cup from St*rb*cks is sacrilege to them."

Dear Egg-noggin: If you're not part of their coffee cult, go ahead and use the cup. Just don't put that disgusting coffee in it. Style always trumps the cult beliefs of family, unless they are trying to kill you to get rid of what they see as a blasphemy.

Also, please send a picture of that cup. It sounds nice.

Talk about an ethical dilemma.

I'm guessing that by encouraging Mr. (Mc?)Egg Noggin' to enjoy his Starbucks coffee mug, you have thereby inadvertently given him the desire to start collecting Starbucks mugs, result in him supporting a company his family disapproves of, and thus forth bringing their heavily caffeinated wrath down upon him.

I'll bet that the next letter you're going to get is:

"Dear Lynx,

I'll see your furry tail in court."

Signed,

Egg Noggin' Lost His Toboggan (because he sold it to fund his collection.)

 

[cinder]

Dear Lynx,

Aren't we infringing on the rights of tea drinkers when we offer only coffee as a hot beverage? What can be done to make organizations see the great evil and discrimination they are perpetuating by not offering tea as a hot beverage option?

-In The Minori-tea

 

[Lynx]

Dear Lynx,

Aren't we infringing on the rights of tea drinkers when we offer only coffee as a hot beverage? What can be done to make organizations see the great evil and discrimination they are perpetuating by not offering tea as a hot beverage option?

-In The Minori-tea

Dear Minori-tea:

We should be very quiet about the whole matter, lest tea become popular and the price suddenly increase. Some things are great about being in the minority. I am so glad my Moser Roth dark chocolate is no more expensive than it is.

 

[Lynx]

This one is from chips-for-brains, somewhere in an undisclosed sector of silicon valley.

"Dear Lynx:

My computer is still running Windows 7. I want to download Windows 10, use it to make a Windows installer disk and install Windows 10 on my computer. But I would have to use my existing Windows 7, to download the system that is going to replace it.

Isn't that kind of like making your employee train the new guy, then firing the employee who trained him?"

Dear chips:

Usually I would tell people who have problems with Windows that they should switch to linux, but in this case the same problem exists with linux. No matter what system you are running, if you want to download the new system you have to use the old system to download it.

But your current system is not being kicked out, it is retiring. It is old and slow and cannot keep up with modern security threats anymore. Let the poor old thing haul in the new guy and go to its retirement in peace.

 

[Lynx]

I do hope y'all will bring some answers to the thread. I don't want to be the only one answering these questions. I brought them up here on the forum in the hope that somebody else would have a better answer than I could give. Or at least a different one.

 

[Lynx]

Egg-noggin finally got a picture of that cup uploaded. I gotta say, noggin, that IS a nice contrast.