Question

Read the Ethical Dilemma, Anything for a BUC, and share your thoughts by answering the following ethical question also posed at the end of the story. What should you do? When answering the question elaborate, expand upon, and support your thoughts.

Answer 1

As explained in the problem, there is an ethical delimma for the person to make a decision where saving a luxurious house is on one side of the equation and on the other side is being partner to illicit activities.
So, the first step has to be to gather knowledge about legality of the whole operation in United States (because its the governing country in the case ). Now, if we do some research online, it a well accepted fact
throughout the world that having knowledge of an illicit activity and not reporting it is not a crime, but being a part of an activity while knowing that it is illicit indeed is.

So the question arises weather it can be proven that one had knowledge of the illicitness of the deal or not. Trying to remove proof of this knowlede is illegal as well, but if done succesfully can help the person save the
salary to keep his luxurious house with his family.
On the other hand, if the above said activity is performed by an individual to safeguard own interesets, even though he or she might get saved from the legal ramifications, but ethically it goes on to prove that
one is okay with other's loos on his or her own benifit, more readily if the person in interest never comes into the sight of the person responsible
So such ethicality is questionable on grounds of honour and morality

Hence, if the knowlede is confirmed regarding the illicitness of the trade, the best practivce morally would be to report this crime to law enforcement
If law enforcement is not trustworthy then the second best thing to do is not conduct buisness and stay away from the whole affair