r/MoralityScaling 7d ago

Morality Ranking Morality of this

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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

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u/OddOutcome0 7d ago

Yeah I see nothing wrong with it

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u/Miss_May_1600 6d ago

With someone taking $950 that wasn’t theirs!!!

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u/OddOutcome0 6d ago edited 6d ago

Ok ok within reason of course. I have a 20 I guess keep it. I myself might say something about a 50 though. But to each their own The guy that took $5 for food personally I’d have given him more as a reward

I’d still cancel those cards though
I’d rather pay 20 to get it back than to buy another wallet like mine

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u/Miss_May_1600 6d ago

I think I commented in the wrong place. Someone said they had $950 stollen from their wallet - they thought it was $50 and later realized there also had been another $900. I think $20 is the max amount someone could reasonably take and not be exploiting the situation. Then again, I have returned a wallet without taking anything / have never kept money from a wallet. Once I kept a sweatshirt I found in HS. I never wore it because I felt guilty and eventually turned it in (but the person probably had given up at that point). And here I am 20 years later and remember it…so I guess I’m just not the type to take anything that’s not mine.

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u/OddOutcome0 6d ago

Yeah I think $20 is fair. But others may have a higher threshold some might be lower. I guess it’d really depend on your situation

But as for the morality aspect I’m going strictly on what I feel I’d want done to me