00:01
This question here involves ethics and is a little bit more related to perspective rather than just concrete fact.
00:07
So this is going to be a little bit more subjective rather than objective.
00:11
And this one will also depend on how you feel about this question as well.
00:16
So if, for example, we have a pregnant woman in a restaurant and you are a server there, so a waiter, and she requests that you bring her a nice bottle of wine, would you honor her decision? how would you respond to that? and basically, would you have any responsibility knowing that you could harm the fetus, potentially causing fetal alcohol syndrome? and would you want to talk with anybody else about this? would the restaurant be responsible for monitoring? what happens with their customers? this is all for you to decide.
00:55
So let's just walk through how you could go about making these decisions and first looking at how you would respond to her.
01:03
So i think the primary thing that i would do is inform her because now you know all about fetal alcohol syndrome and how alcohol has a negative effect on pregnant women and specifically their offspring.
01:17
Since you know about that information and you're in this situation, the best thing that you could do is to attempt to educate her on the dangers.
01:23
So i would inform the client about potential hazards.
01:33
Because maybe she just doesn't know.
01:37
If that doesn't work and she demands that you serve her, then i suppose there, i don't think that there is any law preventing a pregnant woman from buying wine.
01:47
So i think it would be your legal obligation to serve her the wine if she is willing to pay for it.
01:54
Now, probably if you don't want to be the one bringing the bottle yourself, you can probably get one of your other server colleagues to bring her the bottle.
02:03
But at the end of the day, i think she would be, she would have to be honored at her request of getting the alcohol.
02:14
So unfortunately, although you know what was going to happen, you still might have to bring her the alcohol.
02:22
However, the question then arises, is it her right to make those decisions about her unborn child's health? and once again, although the surgeon general does put these warnings on these wine packages, we see the same thing with cigarettes, and so far it is not illegal to smoke cigarettes.
02:44
And there are probably plenty of pregnant women that smoke cigarettes while they are pregnant, despite the fact that there is the large surgeon general warning that especially pregnant women should not be smoking them.
02:56
And this happens time and time again.
02:59
Of course, we shouldn't condone this activity...