People keep single business cards of people/businesses they've encountered. Your OWN business card is kept in a breifcase or on your desk.
I honestly DON'T see how ANY of you can see justification in keeping the money. You've never lost something dear to you? Oh, you have? You're just stupid for losing it. **** doesn't happen, you must be perfect.
And the moral standings of the person receiving the money is irrelivent. Reguardless, returning the money is the morally OK thing to do. This isn't my morals, it's MORALS IN GENERAL. Any reasoning for keeping it isn't reason enough, you're just being immoral and selfish. I believe in selfishness, but NOT at the expense of someone else. You DON'T have to take from anyone else to be selfish. That is, I would be HAPPY to take the 1000 some bucks if no owners could be found. I wouldn't hesitate to take it because no one claimed it: It's mine now.
You wouldn't find it moral if the police station gave it to whoever came in looking for a wallet, wouldn't you? You'd expect the police station to ask questions about the wallet. You'd expect the person would have to identify the wallet. The person would be immoral for asking for a wallet that wasn't theres. WHY can you consider yourself moral for keeping it? That's stupid.
Above all that, if someone returned a wallet to me with that kind of cash in it, I'd give them a small reward. You're not getting 1000 bucks out of returning it, but you'll get an honest 50 bucks, maybe. Any chance of money plus the respect of a stranger is WELL worth the possibility of NOT getting anything.
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