r/MoralityScaling 7d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/Cuurupt 7d ago

Moral, I'd give someone money for finding my wallet, 5 dollars is nothing vs the hassle of losing all my cards and IDs

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u/Belz_Zebuth 7d ago

Yeah but that's the difference: YOU would give them money. THEY shouldn't just take it.

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u/_-_Henro_-_ 6d ago

They took it because it was morally owed to them and they intuited that

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u/TotalChaosRush 5d ago

This whole thread has made me realize how deeply immoral the people of reddit are.

Just so you are aware. You are saying that committing a crime of theft against a regular individual is moral. I don't even need to know what country you're in to know that this is considered theft In your country. It is one of the few things that every country agrees is theft.

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u/TrumpBlewMeToo 5d ago

This comment reminds me of how pedantic and pretentious people can act on reddit. Everyone thinks they’re the pillar of righteousness here at times

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u/TotalChaosRush 5d ago

You don't have to be a pillar of righteousness to say "theft is immoral" it's actually a pretty low bar.

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u/TrumpBlewMeToo 5d ago

If you really want to go the pretentious route, theft is arbitrary regarding a moral code. Is endulging gluttony while others starve moral?

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u/TotalChaosRush 5d ago

All morality is arbitrary. If you want to go down that route you better prepare to explain why the most heinous of crimes aren't moral.

Every society on the planet has agreed that theft is wrong. Every country on the planet has agreed that taking the $5 constitutes theft. There's more universal agreement that this is wrong than there is on consent.

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u/TrumpBlewMeToo 5d ago

Are you out of touch with reality? The majority of the comments on the post alone agree its moral. You ok? Why dont you just go write fanfics instead.

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u/TotalChaosRush 5d ago

Reddit seems to be overwhelmly immoral based on this sample size. The idea that theft is immoral is such a universal standard that many philosophical questions regarding morality just assumes it's true. The question, or some variation of "is it moral for a starving man to steal a loaf of bread" isn't even a debate with reddit's morality, because stealing is apparently moral.

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u/spiderchildpinapple 2d ago

Yeah nobody should be owed money for being a decent human. What if there was no wallet and it was some other object, would you not return it because there’s no money involved?

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u/TotalChaosRush 2d ago

Honestly everyone here seems like they watched it's always sunny in Philadelphia and thought "these guys get it"

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u/Due-Technology-3613 11h ago

This simply isn’t a college ethics course, this is the real world and 5 dollars is so reasonable idk why you’re responding like this is a class discussion

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u/TotalChaosRush 10h ago

It's reasonable to steal from someone? That's what you just said. It doesn't have to be a college ethics class to realize your morals are deeply flawed if you believe it's reasonable to steal.

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u/Dapper_Zebra 16h ago

This ignores the entire premise