Masters Thesis

To tip or not to tip? that's a philosophical question!

The morality of tipping is an interesting question that has hardly been engaged in philosophy. The aim of this paper is to grapple with the question of whether customers in restaurants ought to tip their servers. Working from an ethics of care, I will argue that customers ought not to tip their servers because the tipping practice itself is morally objectionable. Since the convention of tipping is inherently exploitative, fosters relationships of competition among fellow service workers, encourages vicious character traits, and compromises individual autonomy, I argue that we ought to act in ways that encourage the abolishment of the tipping practice. This includes the conscientious refusal to tip servers at restaurants to avoid the continued maintenance of the social convention.

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