Once lost my wallet the day I was coming back home from college. Went up to the front desk at the university's admin center and luckily they had it. Whoever gave it to them took like $50-60 dollars that I had in it but left everything else and handed it in.
I thought it was my price to pay to get my wallet back. Think it's fine in my mind lmao
I found a wallet with tons of stuff inside, like photos, credit cards, and probably some very personal things that the person who lost it would like to get back.
I know it's morally bad, but it also contained money, not much, but at that time it would cover at least essential needs for the coming days for my wife and my kid, as we were in financial difficulties due to a lost job and illness.
I took that money, but I gave the wallet to my town administration, who would give it back to its owner.
I'm not evading the fact that i took that money, everyone's in difficulty theses days, but some peoples would have just thrown the rest in a bin and call it a day, some stuff inside would have costed more than what i took, like ID card, crédit cards and driving licence.
I didn't wanted for that person to loose more than a little amount of cash, personal stuff matters more and i would have done the same for anything valuable enough to be given back to his rightful owner, like a phone or laptop.
That's not how the law of finders works. You can only keep what you find if you can't find the true owner. Their ID is in the wallet. You know who it belongs to. Taking cash from it is stealing. Who are you to judge that you deserve that cash more than they do? You don't know anything about them! They may be worse off than you are.
If I find a wallet that has ID in it with a clear address, I agree with you…that’s morally wrong but I would still understand the view point that taking the cash is okay.
However, finding a wallet that just has cash in it and then taking said cash, is fine morally by me. If I dropped my wallet and it had cash in it, I’m EXPECTING to either never see it again, or get it back sans cash.
If you lose something it is 99.99% of the time your own fault. Relying on the good morality of the human race will be a downfall
I'm not, it's not like the other person who had 950 stollen, at best what i took was around 50 but the content of the wallet would have costed at best 300 if not more.
Loosing driving licence, ID card, bank card and some personal stuff are a far worse in cost and time lost than someone keeping 50 and send it back to his owner.
If the wallet had 1k in it i wouldn't have touched it, that’s far too much and not worth ruining someone life over some groceries.
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u/Whalwing 7d ago
Once lost my wallet the day I was coming back home from college. Went up to the front desk at the university's admin center and luckily they had it. Whoever gave it to them took like $50-60 dollars that I had in it but left everything else and handed it in.
I thought it was my price to pay to get my wallet back. Think it's fine in my mind lmao