I still remember the moment of my life when I did something very unethical. It happened when I met my first boyfriend. I soon fell in love with him. A lot of nice and beautiful things I could tell you about him. He was amazing person, he was full of different ideas and he brought a lot of new values to my life.
His passion was the ocean. He used to be a professional seaman and sailed around the whole world. However, he didn't smoke a pipe and he didn't have beard. He didn't talk a lot about his adventures, but when he drank some whisky he began talking about the real seamen life. The superstitions were very important in his life. He didn't whistle, because he said that on every old sailing ship the commands were given just by whistling. He didn't want to piss off Neptune. The Neptune's furry is huge: he may easily throw a boat on the roof. If he did so, the bodies of all brave seamen were thrown out on the shore, except the ones who paid for the funerals. To avoid that every sailor wore an earring made of a gold coin, diamond or any valuable rock. It would be a kind of payment for the funeral.
Some years ago he was preparing his new voyage, I wanted to give a small gift to bring him the good luck. But I knew a sailor's superstition, which foretells that if somebody wants to give a present to a seaman, which supposed to bring him the good luck, he has to steal it. I remember I was very confused, because I wanted to give him a gift, but I didn't want to steal it. I even started thinking about paying somebody to steal something to give him, but I knew that it wouldn't be a real good luck present from me. The day before he was going to leave I decided to go to a store and steal an elephant. Why did I decide to steal an elephant? Because a small elephant is supposed to bring the good luck. So I went to the nearest store and I felt like everyone knew what I was going to do. I just felt everybody's eyes on me. I found the right elephant: it was blue with a small silver chain to stick the car keys. I took it to my hand and kept it closed. The moment when I was going out the store, was the worst time of my life. I felt ugly. I was nervous and shaking. I felt like a criminal, because stealing even the smallest thing is considered as deeply unethical. When I was outside, I felt deeply pain and I could easily recognized the shape of an elephant with the chain imprint on the inside part of my hand. However, I felt the great relief and happiness, because I believed that this small blue elephant would bring my boyfriend the good luck and bring him soon back.
At that time I knew I was doing something unethical, but on the other hand I believed I had to do it and I really wanted to do it. In this way I violated the basic rights: it means I took something from someone, which didn't belong to me.
If I didn't fell in love in my boyfriend and I didn't believe in his superstitions, I wouldn't act unethically.
