{"id":2776,"date":"2002-09-23T13:24:44","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T18:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2002-09-23T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2002-09-23T18:24:44","slug":"scruples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/23\/scruples.html","title":{"rendered":"Scruples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villasantiago.com\/\">Saturday Scruples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>1. You dream that friends die in a plane crash. The next day they announce a trip to Greece. Do you mention your dream?<\/b>  Of course I do. I enjoy razzing my friends.  And if I <i>really <\/i>had the wiggins about it, I&#8217;d have a moral obligation to pass the word on.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.  Your spouse offers to let you have an affair if s\/he can. Do you accept the offer?<\/b>  Must &#8230; suspend &#8230; disbelief &#8230;  Um, probably not.  I suspect such things are far better (and easier) contemplated in fantasy than in real life.  Beside which, having been struck blind, deaf and mute by that offer, I probably wouldn&#8217;t find many prospects.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.  You&#8217;re a collage teacher. one of your students plagiarized an essay and should fail the course. She&#8217;s from a disadvantaged minority. Do you make an exception?<\/b>  Absolutely not.  I mean, what would I be <i>actually <\/i>teaching by doing so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Saturday Scruples&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4162,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/26\/saturday_scrupl.html","url_meta":{"origin":2776,"position":0},"title":"Saturday Scruples","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Jan-03 8:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It may not be Saturday, but it is time for the Saturday Scruples....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personal Q&amp;A&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personal Q&amp;A","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personal-qa"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/saturday_scrupl.html","url_meta":{"origin":2776,"position":1},"title":"Saturday Scruples","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Jul-02 8:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"It was an earlier version of this Q&A that got me into the business myself. 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