Does one incur sin for eating for free at a restaurant after a hair was found in the food, knowing that the restaurant manager is not its owner?
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This manager is authorized to act on behalf of the restaurant, and therefore there is no harm in accepting the manager's offer not to pay for dinner. What the questioner did is better and closer to chivalry and noble morals.
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