Yes. The reason to do that is b/c it's the right thing to do, but it often also works out in your favor. People find it hard to collaborate with (as customers, vendors, etc) with people who have dishonest practices.

Yes. I was joking b/c my wallet had my ID, so all they had to do is look for a guy matching my pic, age, and height.

Once I found $50 lying under a van in a poor neighborhood. I knocked on a door and asked who's van it is. They told me. I went to that house. The kid ran and got her dad. Her dad seemed to think for sure I was a cop b/c I have short hair and dress "conservative". I'm guessing the money may have had to do with drugs or other contraband. It was kind of a bizarre thing. I don't know why I did it b/c I'd probably be more cautious now and just leave the cash alone.

An ID on bills being blown by the wind? (There was NO one nearby..not a soul... it was surreal.)

It's actually a lower-end utilitarian gym.

If it were a Congressional gym they would have had a couple guys pretending to get in a fight about gay marriage and guns while they picked my pocket from behind.

It would if it had an ID showing a 5'7" middle-aged man who you had seen nearby. :)

Sorry, I misunderstood your last line!!!

I´m not blaming enterprise, I´m blaming certain individuals for corrupting everything: politics, religion, enterprise, education, police, law, science, etc.

I don't think I would blame enterprise for creating bad people, I believe they were always bad people but are put in a position to take advantage of their position to do harm!!!

Good story... encouraging. A tip I heard just the other day: Display your cell phone number prominently inside the wallet, or anything else that might be lost (car keys?).

That's a good story, thanks for sharing it. One way I've found to shut liberals up when they are pontificating is to take out my wallet, open it up, and tell them to take as much as they want for whatever cause they are espousing. They've never taken the money. It's a lot easier on the conscience to steal if you use government as the middleman (or middle woman), which I point out to them. Maybe that's why I no longer get invited to parties.

Jarvisc -

There is an important perspective there. 'Honesty' with reference to an individual person with whom you have contact is far different from adhering to a philosophy that is inherently dishonest, but which you believe to be good.

Most of my friends are liberals (sigh!) and they are all good people. They work hard, help their friends ("...and their adoption tried..." friends) and feel that they are doing good. They would unhesitatingly return your wallet without touching a cent. They would also cast a vote to raise taxes to support the indigent.

This is why I, a single woman with no children, think that education is important. There has to be some way of exposing people to a philosophy that is 'good' without being detrimental to society as a whole (which the modern liberal philosophy is). The only current escape is introspection and a willingness to be >3SD from the cultural norm.

I think these movies may help.

Jan

It's not only about money. I am moderately disabled and was walking with a cane when I fell at the San Diego Zoo. I was unable to get up on my own. Within the next 5 minutes, the following occurred: A man helped me up, a woman got a chair from a nearby restaurant so I could sit, and a man who had a 1st aid kit treated my skinned knee with medication and a bandage (he turned out to be a scoutmaster). A few minutes later, a Zoo staffer took me in a car to their 1st aid station and treated me there. How's that for good people? No one just walked by and left me there. Everyone helped to the extent they could, and I never even got the chance to thank them. I suppose that it's mostly the bad stuff you hear about, but I think people are mostly good.

I was driving down the road and ran over a bill, I saw it just as I passed over it...I stopped, backed up, until the wind stopped blowing it and I could catch up to it (driving backwards) then I got out and pick it up. It wasn't the only bill I found. I kept finding more and more. I was alone and NO one was around...not a single car. It was like a dream. Middle of the day.

Thanks for the positive perspectives CircuitGuy.

I think there is an important distinction though betwen how people are willing to act in a personal concrete instance and what they are willing to, effectively commit, in a general sense.

For example, no one would greedily want to steal 14% of my productive life. However, many of those same people would see no problem with forcing me to sign up for health insurance and to participate in Medicare insurance, etc. Medical spending represents some 14% - 17% of our economy, so if you force me to participate in the medical industry, it is like taking (on some level of average) 14%-17% of my life's income from me. I should be able to choose for myself what portion of my life I want to spend on health care, and I can tell you it isn't 15%. Maybe 5% and happy with 0%, it's a question of priorities. For myself I simply consider it immoral to participate in an industry which, in my view, is so far removed from supply and demand. I don't want anesthesia, if I get cancer just cut it out surgically (should be cheap), if I break a bone just set it the old fashioned way. I'm not willing to pay more because that isn't my priority -- the cost is effectively equivalent to a house, a college education, etc. I should be able to make those choices.

But instead, others will steal 14% of my life and see no problem with it. I'm sure they would have happily returned my wallet.

Very glad for you, CircuitGuy! Not much of that going around, but there is some. My wife and I practice that kind of morality all the time, even in regards to businesses. A week ago we went shopping at Walmart where, amongst other things, she bought two pairs of jeans. On the way home she was checking the receipt and realized only one pair was listed. We turned around, went back, and paid for the other pair. We don't like theft committed on us, so we don't steal from others, even if it is a multi-billion dollar business. I was surprised when the customer service person said that we are not the only ones that have done that because she has had others do the same. That is nice to know.

I'm very happy for you that it turned out the way it did. There are definitely decent people walking around. It's nice to encounter them. :-)

Yes, no way to know who it belonged to, unless they were running around exclaiming it had been dropped.
What did you order? There are no good Chinese restaurants here. :-(

Wow. Just rolling along in the middle of the street? Were you observant or it smacked up against your foot?

I found 50 bucks rolling down the street today. We ordered in Chinese. Does that make us bad people. (If I had any way of knowing who it belonged to I would've found them.)

You met a rare producer today, cg. cause for celebration.