In answer Betsy's original question:
I would tell the worker that I only asked for ten for a reason, and therefore will only be paying him ten. However, I would leave him a note with my name and number on it to give to his manager if she feels the need to debate it.
Here's a non-monetary moral dilemma for you:
You have a choice between saving the life of your one true love, or saving the lives of ten strangers. Who would you save?
Extend that.... and figure out just how many lives you are willing to sacrifice in order to save your one true love. Give it a number. Would you allow 20 people to die in exchange for the life of your true love? 100 people? 10,000? 100,000? One million? Ten million? Exactly how selfish are you?
Look at it this way, Ten lives to one, I love the girl, but thats ten people, and shes one, put just about anybody in that spot, even myself, and I'd chose to let the ten live.
You're responding to his question using mathematics, which shows a callousness on your part to the situation - certainly not intentionally, I'm sure, but how most people would respond who have not been in the situation themselves. When you say, "I love the girl, but hey," you're revealing a flippancy towards your love for her, which clearly shows that your not viewing this "girl" as your one true love.
Not fully true,how would you feel if you were one of those ten people, and you knew I had chose to keep my loved one alive, and let you and the other nine die.That's ten faimilys that will be greifing because a loved one died so I could make one faimily gratefull that I spared the girl, theres logic to both sides, keep the girl, keep the relationship, keep the strangers, spare more lives.
Again, you're looking at this from a distant perspective. We can talk about numbers all day, but until you truly love someone enough that it takes you more than more than a half hour to come up with an answer for Hell's question, you're talking out of naivety.
Now in answer to Hell's question, my answer would probably differ in varying situations. If I was allowed to choose the outcome in the situation I was in, where my love died covering his unit as they backed out, I would probably choose selfishly, and never let him go to that god-forsaken place in the very beginning. However, if it was ten of my children versus my true love, I would likely choose the ten - another selfish answer, I know.
Clearly my answers show a serious flaw in my moral compass, so to speak, but emotions often override any sense of justice. However, I know that the man I loved would never have it any other way, and even if I was able, I would not hinder him from choosing death so that others may live if that's what he desired.