instruction:
In this task you are given an anecdote, which recount a complex ethical situation. The question you are given is, has the author of the anecdote acted ethically? answer this question with "RIGHT" or "WRONG".
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Short version - There is a little known crosswalk near an extremely busy street where I live. I don't believe I have ever seen a soul use it and I've lived here a long time. There are four total lanes of traffic and I am in the right lane. 

To my left, extending about 10' behind me is empty space, with high speed traffic barreling down to pass me if we continue moving down the road. All of a sudden out of nowhere, a pedestrian dressed in all black frantically throws their hand out in front of my car. 

They are approximately 10' in front of me and I am moving about 40 mph. My first thought is FUCK... if I slow down for this dude and he jogs across the road he is going to get hit by the truck behind me.

Guy in black by this time has stepped into the road, frantically waving his hand at me in exaggerated gestures. I am slowed to about 20 and was going to try to drive by him, but he is already in the road, so I short stop it. 

The guy locks eyes with me and waves his hand about 15 more times just in front of my car. He doesn't notice truck zoom by at about 50 or the line of traffic now flowing around me because they think I am in an accident. 

He looks at the traffic stream, back at me. Flips me off and walks away. 

Yes. Totally, always obey traffic... but I wish I had video of this because he would have been smoked for sure.
answer:
RIGHT


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My wife and I recently moved to a small town in Pennsylvania, and we've always lived in cities prior to this. We just had two episodes in the past two months where random strangers lashed out at us in public for not letting them go first. She is Asian and I am white and we are in out thirties. She is getting self conscious that this may be happening because we are an interracial couple in a largely white community. I am wondering if there is just a greater expectation in small towns that younger people give older adults a wide berth and let them go first? 

The first episode happened while we were leaving a restaurant. My wife was leaving through a glass door that opened out, and there was a women who looked about 65 years old on the other side. My wife went through first because the door opened out and then held it for the woman. The woman scolded her saying to "learn some manners." I was several people behind, and it looked like my wife was there alone. I caught right up and asked the woman what happened. She told us, "She should learn some manners and let me go first." I told her to lighten up, shrugged it off, and we left. 

The second episode happened today. We were leaving a business while another woman also looking about 65 years old was walking up the path in the opposite direction to us. She was walking slowly as if she might have had arthritis or some other condition that made it difficult for her to get around. We were walking quickly and we cut diagonally in front of her to get to our car, passing about three feet in front of her. She was walking so slowly though that she did not have to slow down on account of us. In fact, if she were to turn towards the door she were headed for rather than walking straight down the right hand side of the sidewalk, she would have had an unobstructed path. She scoffed as we went by.  It was almost like a hiss. We looked back at her out of surprise, and she was glaring at us over her shoulder. 

In all of our years living in various cities, while we have put up with our share of rudeness, we have never experienced anything like this. Is there some unwritten small town code that we should be giving older adults a wide birth and always let them go first? 

I like to think it might just be that these are nasty, self centered people who we encountered, or maybe we are just inconsiderate city people on the sidewalk, but I don't know. I know there are a fair share of people who are openly racist here. In my work it's not remarkable or uncommon to see people with nazi and white supremacist tattoos and I know there are some kkk members around here. Knowing that they are there is one thing, but somehow it would bother me more if that is why people have lashed out. 
answer:
RIGHT


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I’m a fourth year college student, male, I have two roommates, both male. I have been living with my first roommate, whole I’ll call Bill, for about two years. The third roommate is new and doesn’t factor into the story too much. One of my roommates has been talking about wanting to get a cat. 

About a year or so Bill wanted to foster cats. I did not want to. I love animals, but I’m a fairy busy college student and I did not really want to responsibility of taking care of pets at the moment, and I also didn’t really want cat hair all over the apartment. (The furniture in the living room is all mine.) 
He said he would take the full responsibility of taking care of them, I eventually relented. 
I ended up almost always cleaning litter box and feeding them, which he promised I would never have to do. Our house and furniture were covered in hair from the cats, which to some people may not be a big deal, but I am not used to having pet hair everywhere and it really bothers me. My mother gave me a very nice, expensive couch for the apartment, and the cats would scratch the shit out of it. His dumbass friend would always come over, they’d get high, and they’d hike the cats between their legs like footballs. It terrified them but they were convinced “the cats like it, dude.” He also had a hamster, which he would forget to feed for literally weeks on end, and never paid any attention to, that ended up dying. 

Especially over the past year, I’ve been having a lot of issues with him and his behavior. I’m not sure if elaboration is necessary but I can edit and add if people want more context to our relationship. Every month or so it seems, he’ll do something that puts me off and makes me really question my friendship with him, but I just end up letting things slide. 

He told me maybe a month or so ago he wanted to get a cat. I said no. He was insistent, but I put my foot down, and explained to him why I don’t want a cat and why he isn’t fit to own one. He said he’d just get one behind my back, but he was laughing so I assumed he was joking. 

Yesterday he texts me a picture of the cat he had gotten. I was angry, I considered a huge backstab. He told me 
“I never said I wouldn’t get a cat.”
“I can just keep it locked in my room, you’ll never have to see it.” (Which I don’t believe, but if I did, I feel like it’s not right to keep a cat locked in a single room.) 

I tried to explain how getting a pet is a group decision everyone in the house needs to agree on, but he does not get it. He never ended up coming home from the shelter with the cat, but he’s been sulking like a child and giving me the cold shoulder. Which is his normal behavior when he’s mad. 
Does he have any right to be angry with me? And did I overstep boundaries by forbidding he get the cat? 


Sorry for this long ass post. 
answer:

RIGHT


