Ethical Dilemma !

A quick post from my side again - Now this ethical dilemma stuff are pretty interesting to me. Consider this.

You are parking your vehicle in a parking place and the security guard charges you Rs. 10 /- but does not give you the receipt for it. What do you do?

Well, I am quite a believer in honesty and doing the right things. So I usually stand up to something unfair that is happening around me and always try not to break any rules. Many in Bangalore abide by the rules and also are quite sensitive by nature. I mean Bangalore has people who have a more humanistic view of happenings around them. So we Bangaloreans many a times take pride in adhering to the rules. So the natural tendency for me was to ask for receipt from the fellow since I did not want to be a party to someone who was cheating his employer of money.

But then I remembered what Preetham ( my friend from Hyderabad ) had taught me last June. I have written about him and my learning from him in a previous post in this blog. I started thinking " What harm will happen if this guy takes that 10/- note? Anyways this money is going to the super-rich owner of the mall. Will that ten bucks not help that poor chap who has a family to support? With the inflation raising upto 7.4% levels, will it not have affected that chap's daily subsistence?"

That security chap was apprehensive if I would ask ticket or not? He would have immediately given me the ticket if I had asked for it even once , that I am sure of. So since he was not all that bad a person, then why should I mind him earning an extra buck if that ensures that his child gets the 'pencil box' that he always wanted?

Is it not true that we only bargain and haggle when we are dealing with 'economically backward' people in our society? Why do we mind them getting a few rupees extra when we do not mind the pub owners, coffee shop owners, the branded clothing outlet owners getting hundreds of bucks extra for something whose cost price might be 100 times lesser than the retail price?

But again I was left thinking whether I was encouraging the security fellow to continue being dishonest? Afterall he was not doing the right thing , was he?
I would be then aiding in a honest fellow turning to be a petty fellow swindling his employers.!!!

Difficult for me.... any answers please? This disturbs me a bit... and I face it in many places !!

What do I do ....? Its an ethical dilemma !!