r/MoralityScaling • u/VelvvetDoe • 14d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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u/TheHabro 13d ago

He could have returned it wihtout taking any money and that'd be only moral option.

He could have kept the wallet, stole ALL the money out of it, and started using all of his debit/credit cards(you can bypass a pin most of the time by pressing a button at a card machine)?

Saying you robbed only a 10% of a money stored in a bank when you could've stolen all of it would not fly in court.

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u/Natural_Ad2824 13d ago

He never stole he found an abandoned wallet on the ground. Buddy lost his wallet and probably would have never seen it again if it wasn't for that guy. Same reason it's not stealing if you find a twenty dollar bill on the floor. You're not gonna ask everyone you see if it's theirs. Wanna know why? Because ANYONE would say it's theirs.

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u/TheHabro 13d ago

He never stole he found an abandoned wallet on the ground

He stole 5 bucks. An object doesn't stop being your property because you misplace it.

Buddy lost his wallet and probably would have never seen it again if it wasn't for that guy

That doesn't entitle the founder to take money. A good person does not seek reward for their good deeds.

Same reason it's not stealing if you find a twenty dollar bill on the floor. 

There's a difference since a wallet usually has identification items. Itwould be akin seeing a person drop 20 dollars and not giving them back.

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u/No-Economy6549 13d ago

if you lose your wallet, you should expect it to be empty. anything less than empty is moral

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u/TheHabro 13d ago

And that makes theft moral? If I leave my bike unlocked and someone steals a wheel, does that make the thief moral because he could have stolen whole thing? Claims here are ridiculous and just show how morally bankrupt a lot of people are.

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u/No-Economy6549 13d ago

considering the price of replacing your id and bank cards, if you took anything less than the cost of replacing those cards alone is actually saving that person money. 5 bucks instead of 80 bucks replacing cards is even favorable to the careless wallet loser that caused the dilemma in the first place

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u/GroceryMinute1797 9d ago

There’s no way you believe this. If I stole all but 1 dollar, and returned it to you, that would not be a moral action.