[cheapsuit]

if you say something, thats very nice of you and works to your advantage in a couple ways. 1) it gives you the image of a friendly player that you can use to crush people later and 2) it may calm down the super-agressive players by reminding them that it is, indeed, a friendly game... honestly, i doubt either of these will happen though.

but if you dont say anything, it is by no means a malevolent action. if you are going out of your way to see the burn cards, then i would say that is unethical, but if they are in your line of sight then its fair game imo. think about it, if you were sitting at a table with a player who had a habit of turning his holecards over on the table to take a look at them, would you not look at them too? you definitely would, and you wouldnt be wrong for doing it.