when does it become morally accepted to take money that u find?

Question

is it if the amount of money is little?
or if the place is weird(isolated,unexpected so probably the wind brought it to that place like stuck on leaves in a tree or something)
or if ur inneed of the money ?

what makes something moral and immoral if there is such thing as morality?

Answer 1

If you know how to get it to the previous owner, return it.
If not, you have two equally ethical answers:
(1) you can keep it (charity starts at home) or,
(2) you can donate it to a good cause.

It sounds like you have decent morals, just do what your heart tells you to.

P.S. If the legal tender is on private property, it is claimed as the property holder's

Answer 2

If you don't know who owns it & there's no way of knowing, it's yours. If you know who owns it or have some way of tracing it back to the particular person then it's not yours & if you keep it you're actually stealing from that person. That's what makes it wrong.

I used to work in a store. I found a $20 bill on the floor one day. I put it in my pocket & I thought, if someone asks about it, I'll give it to them, but otherwise, finders keepers. Half an hour later a frantic man came in & asked if anyone had found a $20. "I know it's a long shot, he said but I thought maybe I'd dropped it here." When I handed it to him, he looked like he was going to cry. He was so happy & incredulous that I returned it. Of course I returned it because it was his. Once I knew who owned it, my conscience wouldn't allow me to keep it, that would have been stealing from him.

My test of morals is whether someone is being hurt or not. If no one is being hurt then it can't be immoral.

In the case of a very large sum of money I would be concerned though. It could have been involved in a crime or someone is out all that money. I would turn it over to the police in that instance. At least I think I would! :)

Loose money is anyone's. The wind might blow it anywhere. Money in a container is someone's and efforts should be made to return it to the owner.

I've never found money in a tree. I've only heard that it doesn't grow there. That would be pretty coool!

By the way, where did you find the money? If it's a million dollars in a bag, I believe it's mine so please return it! Tee hee

Answer 3

To take possession of, or to appropriate that which is not one's own with the conscious purpose of permanently denying its true owner of its use and enjoyment is only justified if the property at issue came into the control of the previous possessor by unethical or immoral means, and the finder needs the money.

As when a normally morally ascendant Democrat finds Ken Lay's wallet.

Answer 4

I don't have any money, If I find money, I always try my best to return it, it probably came from someone like me who has no money. I found 6 $100 bills in a parking lot, I turned it in to the Authority's, a man called me a few days later thanking me so much, he went to buy a refrigerator for his family, and lost the money, he said that was his weeks pay, It felt like 6 million dollar reward for me ! YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG BY DOING THE RIGHT THING !

Answer 5

Even if it's strapped to an ID, there is no great quandary.
It's yours, you possess it. Going out of your way to mail back the ID for someone you don't know is suspect. Why do this? There's nothing in it for you at all. Guilt... sympathy for the unknown other. Bollocks. The people want you to feel disingenuine for your own fortune. Take what is yours, give only gifts and not what is demanded of you. Or fall in with serfdom, your choice.

Answer 6

need has nothing to do with it. it is okay, when it is not a really large amount of money, and there is no easy way of returning it to the person who lost, if you find some money along the side of the highway in a rural area, go ahead, but if you find $2000 in a wallet that you saw fall out of someone's pocket, give it back

Answer 7

i think of that divorce occurs all the time, yet because of the fact it rather is hollywood and we hear/see it interior the information that so and so is getting a divorce, we word it plenty greater. That being stated regardless of the undeniable fact that, it has strengthen into extremely tiresome and that i does not carry my breath each time a brand new couple gets married. 'reason i don't think of it has to do with being "morally prevalent" yet I basically discover it so annoying at present. i think like all of them get divorced for the stupidest issues and that they actually do not prefer to even artwork on it then whilst they announce their chop up, a week later they're observed with somebody 20+ years their junior. As my mom says "with all the money and 'luxurious' their lives lead, interior the tip all of them get 'drained' with one yet another and basically flow directly to somebody, nicely youthful. because of the fact, nicely, they are in a place to. they have all the money interior the international and would cope with to pay for something, so as that they does not be throwing in the towel on very like familiar couples do with divorce woes." playstation : easily, Paul Newman replaced into married to the comparable lady until eventually his dying. (basically a touch factor word.)

Answer 8

I think if there is no way to get it back to its owner then you can keep it.

I wish someone had tried to reunite me with the 20 bucks I left in the change slot at the self-check out the day after Thanksgiving.

I hope they needed it worse than I do.

Answer 9

You should keep the money pretty much every time...well unless the person is blind, or deaf, or has some other terrible life-altering handicap. Then you should use that money and buy them a neopolitan milkshake.

Answer 10

IF THE MONEY DOESNT BELONG TO YOU, YOU SHLD GO TO THE POLICE STATION AND REPORT A FOUND CASH....

When i was in 5th grade, me and my 2 buddies found $2000 in a park near our home....i was the one who actually found it, it was inside a box in the sand.....when my friends told me to split it, i dont know why i felt wrong...
As a result we went to the police station and reported it 'found money'. Though foolish, we felt really great, we also became heros for almost a year...we became famous in our school...though we didnt keep the money, we got somethingelse in return....fame....hehehheehe, man tht was ages ago.....

whts not ours...we shldnt keep it...so, i dont agree on the term "finders, keepers"