Agreeing to disagree
Randy Cohen wrote The Good, The Bad & the Difference, which has articles that were written and published in the New Your Times Magazine, explaining the moral rights and wrongs of everyday situation. One of the articles that a boy wrote about from Houston, Texas, is on page 199 and is called, Take Me Out To The Cheap Seats. Cohen’s responses are understandable and are ethical; however, this particular article needs the ethics and the morals challenged.
In brief summary, the situation that is being asked is as follows. The dad to an 11-year-old boy has always bought the cheapest tickets for baseball games. The situation is the dad, taking the boy with him, moves to the better, unoccupied seats down at the front when the …show more content…
Cohen claims and believes that once the plane reaches 35,000 feet in the air, there is no way that anyone can get on the plane to fill the empty seats. Of course, this statement is true, but he explains that why can’t a guy in coach go and occupy the empty seat in first-class. Here is where there is a flaw in his ethical reasoning’s. When someone goes and purchases an airline ticket, they are paying for that seat and they are insured that no one will be in the seat when they board. On an airplane, there is a major difference in first-class and coach. In first-class, people have extra room and comfy seats to relax as well as getting the chance to eat a well-prepared dish (for an airplane flight). In coach, people are three seats to a section with two sections to a row with no legroom, which can be uncomfortable and tight. There are huge differences in the prices of each ticket. It would be unethical to move to the seat in first-class because that person is technically stealing from the airline company. The person who just moved from coach is about to sit in a more expensive seat in first-class. Also, who gets to decide who gets to occupy the seat in first-class? Same situation goes to the baseball game. The best solution in this situation is to deal with the seats that are paid for because people have options to choose which seat they want.
Randy Cohen wrote The Good, The Bad & the Difference, which has articles that were written and published in the New Your Times Magazine, explaining the moral rights and wrongs of everyday situation. One of the articles that a boy wrote about from Houston, Texas, is on page 199 and is called, Take Me Out To The Cheap Seats. Cohen’s responses are understandable and are ethical; however, this particular article needs the ethics and the morals challenged.
In brief summary, the situation that is being asked is as follows. The dad to an 11-year-old boy has always bought the cheapest tickets for baseball games. The situation is the dad, taking the boy with him, moves to the better, unoccupied seats down at the front when the …show more content…
Cohen claims and believes that once the plane reaches 35,000 feet in the air, there is no way that anyone can get on the plane to fill the empty seats. Of course, this statement is true, but he explains that why can’t a guy in coach go and occupy the empty seat in first-class. Here is where there is a flaw in his ethical reasoning’s. When someone goes and purchases an airline ticket, they are paying for that seat and they are insured that no one will be in the seat when they board. On an airplane, there is a major difference in first-class and coach. In first-class, people have extra room and comfy seats to relax as well as getting the chance to eat a well-prepared dish (for an airplane flight). In coach, people are three seats to a section with two sections to a row with no legroom, which can be uncomfortable and tight. There are huge differences in the prices of each ticket. It would be unethical to move to the seat in first-class because that person is technically stealing from the airline company. The person who just moved from coach is about to sit in a more expensive seat in first-class. Also, who gets to decide who gets to occupy the seat in first-class? Same situation goes to the baseball game. The best solution in this situation is to deal with the seats that are paid for because people have options to choose which seat they want.