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While vacationing in a small, sleepy, quiet coastal town in Maine, you take your dog for a walk at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning. You come to an intersection with a stop light. Looking carefully in all directions you don’t see any cars. Then you notice a sign next to the stoplight that says:
JAYWALKING FORBIDDEN
violators subject to fine
Village of Sleepy Cove
Immediately after you read the sign, you look up and see that the stoplight has turned red.
Would it be wrong of you to cross the street against the stoplight in the above circumstances? If so, why? If not, why not?
Notes:
Fourth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, APPE, 2/26/98
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
(c) Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)
While vacationing in a small, sleepy, quiet coastal town in Maine, you take your dog for a walk at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning. You come to an intersection with a stop light. Looking carefully in all directions you don’t see any cars. Then you notice a sign next to the stoplight that says:
JAYWALKING FORBIDDEN
violators subject to fine
Village of Sleepy Cove
Immediately after you read the sign, you look up and see that the stoplight has turned red.
Would it be wrong of you to cross the street against the stoplight in the above circumstances? If so, why? If not, why not?
Notes:
Fourth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, APPE, 2/26/98
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
(c) Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)
