THE ETHICIST TAP : [ Q ]

My 12-year-old son, a seventh grader, was found watching pornography on his iPad. When investigating where he got the link to this site from, we found it had been sent by a friend in their chat.

WHILE we now have implemented parental control and had a conversation about this with our son, we don't know if we should inform the parents of this other child about what's happened.

We saw that the link came through their chat,  but we can't tell for sure whether his friend saw it, too, or just forwarded it.

We have no idea what the parents know, or how we would even approach the topic with them, or how well it would go over with them if we did.

The easiest thing would be to forget about the whole situation and move on. But we feel that may be morally regrettable. [ Name Withheld ]

Read the analysis and the answer in the next publication from Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah who teaches philosophy at N.Y.U.

The World Students Society thanks The New York Times.