[Capt. Tom]

Obviously fiction. Journalists don’t encounter ethical or moral dilemmas.

Kind of like an ethics problem like this: A and B go into business and decide to split all the profit 50/50.

One day a client comes in and overpays his bill to A.

The ethics problem is: should A keep the overpayment for himself, or split it with his partner B. - Tom

[wimpycat]

“A” should return the overpayment to the client. Or is this a trick question?

[Eagles6]

On a grander scale:

Do I lie, destroy this Marine's life and bankrupt his family?

or:

Do I tell the truth and let this man be seen as the hero that he is? (knowing full well that I'm not fit to be scraped off the bottom of his boot)