Re: Join this club, get extra credit. (a question of ethics)
It seems that going to the club meetings would increase your knowledge of the course material. It is totally acceptable for the teacher to award extra credit for those who do extra things to learn about the subject matter.
Would you find it unethical if the club had no dues?
The club needs $5 a person dues for it to exist. This does not strike me as a scam by the teacher to get more dues for her club (I she really going to go through this trouble to scam 25 students out of a total of $125?) I think that the fact that the club charges dues is irrelvant to the teachers actions. This is a question of degree (so I guess Kantian philosophers would disagree) because if club dues were $10,000 I would have more of a problem with the situation but as the situation stands I can not imagine a single college student who can not afford the fee and I have no ethical objection to your teacher actions.
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