Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: A few days ago I had to travel to a conference for work. A day or two before that, I came down with a nasty chest cold that nearly laid me out completely. I had to decide whether to travel or not, and ultimately decided that I couldn't risk missing the conference since my job was paying for me to be there and my registration was nonrefundable. So, I went. Only to have my boyfriend call me a self-centered asshole.

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My boyfriend claims that traveling while sick is one of the worst thing you can do. His reasoning is that I'd be potentially infecting multiple people, including some of the most vulnerable. He gave me a whole flowchart of infections, starting with the airport staff, people on the plane with me (including old people and children), hotel staff (including housekeeping staff, who probably don't get any paid time off), and food service staff anywhere I eat. He says that America's labor laws don't provide well enough for people making minimum wage to deal with infected people like me.

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While I take his point that it sucks to get sick if you can't take time off, it seems ridiculous to quarantine myself because I have a cold. My argument was that people who work in the service industry (which I have in the past, btw) are exposed to all sorts of illnesses all the time. It's the nature of the job. And me not traveling doesn't fix our labor laws. It wasn't reasonable for me to lose out on the conference I was registered to go to, and possibly face consequences at work, just to be one fewer person with a cold in public spaces. Still, I can't help but picture some poor housekeeper who might potentially lose her job because I left used Kleenex in the hotel trash can.

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So, am I the asshole for traveling while sick?

traveling while sick