What would you have done?

[bnm73]

This happened several years ago, but something I read in the news brought it to mind....I thought I'd see what members of this forum may have done.

 

At the time, I worked with a somewhat conservative -- but not close-minded -- person. One day, he asked for my opinion on a moral dilemma.

 

(I immediately laugh, saying that I had no morals, but that is a digression.)

 

He needed a somewhat difficult to find piece of equipment for a personal project. To buy one new was cost-prohibitive. The only one that he could find that was used was being sold by a rabidly homophobic and mildly racist person that he would rather not have anything to do with. He asked my opinion.

 

After a little thought, I said that if he was looking for my permission or approval to get the equipment, then it wasn't needed. If he was trying to alleviate his conscience a little because he was going to buy it, I suggested he get it and then make a donation to a local gay organization...in the name of the homophobe.

 

Opinions? Thoughts? Better suggestions?

[+ Avalon]

Sometimes a person has no choice. He needed it and that was where he had to go.

 

I once needed glass for a table top. They had a "fish" in the window. Those places make me uncomfortable but it was the only place in town. They came out and measured it - good thing they did - and then came back with it.

[rvwnsd]

There are times (and this is one of them) where you have to hold your nose and do what you have to do.