A Question of Ethics and Morals

All year we have been talking about what it means to be G-d's chosen people and the duties and responsibilities that come along with it. Recently I experienced something that really made me think about this concept. I was in Kroger buying groceries, and decided to treat myself to an icee. I bought my icee and sat down to enjoy it as I waited for the rest of the dorm to finish shopping. As it turned out, everyone else also ended up buying an icee, and when all the purchases had been made we started heading towards to exit to go home. As we passed back by the icee machine, someone decided fill their icee back up to the top again, because they had drank some of it already. At that point, the person that had taken us to the store came up to the group and told us that refilling icees is wrong if they don't specify that you can have free refills and that this was giving the wrong impression. Everyone in the group had a different opinion on this, and the conversation that followed actually referenced different ideas that we have discussed in class. The main idea that was discussed was that it gives the wrong impression of us as students of the MHAFYOS, as well as dormers, and as Jews in general, and that we have to be extremely careful to always spot check everything we do, because who knows who may be watching. As descendants of Avraham, fulfillers of G-d's promise, and members of his chosen nation, we must always be an Or Lagoyim, a light to the nations, and people that are known for their tzedek and mishpat- in otherwords, no unauthorized refills.