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Bonnie & Gene both make excellent points regarding ethics. Clearly, they are highly-principled individuals, each with a strong sense of right and wrong.
While I have similar standards for myself, when judging others behavior I am inclined to give strangers the benefit of the doubt. This may just a matter of semantics - my own attempt to classify things in degrees of 'wrongness' (careless, rude, unethical, criminal). It's a somewhat complex personal calculation that factors in intent and resulting harm.
I just thought the term 'unethical' was a little harsh. Personally, I reserve that term for more serious matters.
