Аннотация: A care of a government money. The sketch of the state morals.
A care of a government money. The sketch of the state morals.
When a person comes to a travel company and signs a contract, he pays for the future trip. Maybe someone pays after the trip? I admit that in some unique cases, a payment after the trip takes place - as an exception.
The client paid the money to a travel company and went on a trip. But - more or less often - he is returned back at public expense.
The situation becomes especially interesting when you need to return not one or two tourists to the homeland, but - thousands of people.
The epidemic (a little later - a pandemic) began in December 2019, and a tourist trip in the standard version lasts, as a rule, from 10 to 30 days. That is, tourists went on a trip, knowing about the beginning of the epidemic (and maybe - a pandemic).
A curious situation. Some privileged groups become, as if, an universally recognized, a traditional ones: for example, tourists who need to be returned from abroad at public expense, or a deceived equity holders [owners of apartments under construction] (deceived depositors, deceived bank incantades).
At this point, a difficult moral situation arises.
First, every "simple" person risks in Russia. (Although not every person receives a budget ruble in own difficult times).
Secondly, in the traditions of Russia - a mercy, a charity. Mercy is a tradition. Charity towards the poor and to the miserable, indigent. (However, the poor and paupers rarely go on foreign tourist trips or purchase apartments).
In general, the question is morally complicated. We leave it aside the appropriateness of costs, if that happened. It happened - it happened ... (Apparently) We (they) are used to relying on the Russian avos' [avos' - a philosophy of behavior, or attitude, of a person who ignores possible problems and, at the same time, expects or hopes for no negative results or consequences]. (We will not assume a worst option - that this is not an accident, but an intentional affairs ...). Let's help - we, all together - to a people in a difficult situation!
But the government funds is a different topic. For a state person, prudence and thrift in relation to the money collected for state needs are important. Perhaps it was necessary to take into account the fact of an epidemic (pandemic)?
Will anyone show a care for a public money...
March 18, 2020 20:14
Translation from Russian into English: March 18, 2020 20:55.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Заботливость о государственных деньгах. Очерк государственной морали'.