You find a bag full of money

Jail would be heaven compared to what the drug cartel assassins had planned. :cry:
 

Why not take this hypothetical seriously? Like all hypotheticals there is no right or wrong answer, no prize to be won. The exercise is designed to reveal people's values and ethical decision making strategies.

My position is clear. It's not mine. I'm not entitled to it and I must hand it in to the police. I learnt that from my mum as a child although I don't see that as a childish level of ethical decision making. I think that is what whisteria is referring to when she talks about right and wrong. It's a moral value.

Other people are using pragmatic values - mostly about what harm will befall if the money is kept. I haven't seen anyone yet who has argued to keep the money for the good that could be done with it.
 
Hello
Listern folks i didnt become a member of this forum to be told im to serious on more than one occasion by the same person
and so its goodbye from me,
If this is how older people behave then its not for me,
to those people who have been nice to hear from i'll miss you but to the likes of applecruncher and its seems the newest member red "i wont miss at all,
good bye folks.
 

Whisteria...I understand your sentiments, but some posters just don't see eye to eye , don't just leave the forum, if there's someone you prefer not to 'meet' on the forum you can go into settings and put them on ignore, you don't even see their posts. No need for you to leave, I think you've enjoyed this forum overall, so it would be a pity for you to lose that enjoyment.

AC is a a shoot from the hip gal, which I respect but you have the prerogative to ignore any poster who winds you up...go into settings at the top of the page and then on the left 'edit' and that will block the posts of members whom you don't wish to see.
 
Dame Warrigal said:
The exercise is designed to reveal people's values and ethical decision making strategies.
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With all due respect Warrigal, apple is the OP and I don't think she designed it to reveal anything. I think she was just having a bit of fun. How do I know this? Because I have started posts like this many times over the years during my life on "forums". Can't you see how she jokes during her post?

Whisteria, I don't want to see you leave. Just sweep it under the rug and continue on. There are always disagreements on forums. I was told off the moment I posted here. We have to just move past it. You will never find a forum any more fun than this one.

Apple is a good poster...........so are you. Just because you have different opinions, doesn't mean anyone is wrong, just means you are different......and thank God, would be pretty boring if we all agreed all the time.

If you stay, I'll buy you anything you want with my bag of money. Hurry and say yes before I spend it all. I could hire a stripper for us girls. One "dipped in gold". :love_heart:
 
Getting back to topic........

DameW - Red is correct. I did not post this thread as a test or to "reveal" anything; it's not that deep. In my opening post I mention movies where people find money.
 
Accch forget it...the written word is difficult at the best of times , things can easily be read in a different context to how they were meant, it happens on every social media site.
 
Just so I understand, those of you talking about and posting pictures of all the things you would buy (as if you won the lottery)............you would keep the money? (Realizing it's probably crime related?)

Not being judgmental, just wondering if you would feel "safe" spending the money? Safe from law enforcement and safe from the bad guys.

Also, since you're spending it how would you explain your sudden wealth? Where would you keep the money? Just curious.
 
Seriously, I don't know what I would do Apple. I am not going to say I would return it, just to impress everyone and let them know I am a real honest girl. I am not going to say I would keep it because I don't know if I would or not.

I have had past experiences of finding purses, wallets and I always returned them.

How many times in a lifetime would anyone (other than the movies) find a bag of that much money anyway?
The crooks wouldn't be so careless as to lose that I don't think. They might hide it in a hole in the ground under a certain tree, but would you find it? Not likely unless you carry a big shovel on your walks and have a great imagination that there might be a bag of money hidden in that ground under that specific tree.
 
Red, I understand. Yeah, I've also found purses and wallets. But that's very different from a big bag of cash.

I'm sticking with my original answer.....I'd walk away. Not to prove to anyone that I'm honest, but the fear would override any sense of doing the right thing and it would certainly override greed.
 
applecruncher said:
Red, I understand. Yeah, I've also found purses and wallets. But that's very different from a big bag of cash.

I'm sticking with my original answer.....I'd walk away. Not to prove to anyone that I'm honest, but the fear would override any sense of doing the right thing and it would certainly override greed.
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EXACTLY, it is different than finding what I have previously found, so I don't know what I would do. I find it hard to know what I would do in a situation of any sort, if I haven't experienced it before. I know I am not a greedy person because all my friends say I am the most generous person they have ever met.
 
Let me be Frank here, if I found a big bag of money, I would seriously want to keep it, and maybe I would, but don't tell anyone, OK?
 
People do react differently to a question depending on which part they focus on. I wasn't too focussed on the mention of movies because I remember real life situations similar to the hypothetical question. By the time I cam to this thread whisteria had responded and been chastised for 'preaching'. So I will simply add this real life situation and say that I have great admiration for this man's integrity.

Homeless man rewarded after handing in money found in backpack

A homeless man in America who turned in tens of thousands of pounds he found in a backpack is in the clover after a bid to raise money for him as a reward passed the £625,000 mark.By Philip Sherwell, New York8:44AM BST 20 Sep 2013


Glen James came across a backpack containing £1,500 ($2,400) in cash and some £25,000 ($40,000) in traveler's checks, along with a passport, at a Boston shopping mall on Saturday. He promptly alerted authorities, earning him special thanks and recognition from the city's police chief, Ed Davis. But that was not enough for Ethan Whittington, a 27-year-old who launched an online fundraising effort to help James find his footing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/103...after-handing-in-money-found-in-backpack.html
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Apparently a lot of other people felt as I do and wanted to make life easier for him. I suppose I am preaching but I'm also trying to explain why not everyone wants to trivialise what is to them a serious issue. On this one, I stand with whisteria.
 
DameW - okay, okay, okay... I get it. You don't like what I said to whisteria. Lucky for you s/he is most likely still reading and might come back (in response to those who caved to the flounce and begged her/him "please don't go"). Hopefully when/if s/he does return it will be to go to some other thread, seeing as how s/he was instructed on how to put me (the thread starter) on ignore. Kinda strange, but...whatever. :shrug:

Hopefully any further comments will be about the topic of the thread, as opposed to the melodramatic flounce. :rolleyes:
 
Fine with me as long as all responses, from whatever direction they may come, are treated with equal courtesy.
If that doesn't happen then a forum begins to descend to the high school mean girls scenario.

So, getting back to the OP.

If I found a big bag of money I would be tempted to look on it as a lottery win and think about how I could spend it. Briefly.

I am rather superstitious about sudden windfalls of money ever since the first really big lottery was launched in NSW to raise funds to build the Opera House. First prize was $100,000 which was a fortune then - our house cost only $13,000 to build. The winners' names were published in the papers and their little boy was kidnapped for ransom. He didn't survive because he died in the boot of the car they carried him in, possibly from toxic fumes. I decided that our humble circumstances were all that I really wanted because no-one would ever be likely to kidnap my kids for ransom. I've never bought a lottery ticket since.

So, I would take the bag to the nearest police station hoping that the money would be returned to the owner. If it remained unclaimed and I were to be given the money I would offload it quickly to a charity. As I said, I am superstitious about having lots of money.
 
applecruncher said:
DameW - okay, okay, okay... I get it. You don't like what I said to whisteria. Lucky for you s/he is most likely still reading and might come back (in response to those who caved to the flounce and begged her/him "please don't go"). Hopefully when/if s/he does return it will be to go to some other thread, seeing as how s/he was instructed on how to put me (the thread starter) on ignore. Kinda strange, but...whatever. :shrug:
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AC no offence meant to you at all when I suggested Whisteria put 'you'' on ignore...it was general comment if he or anyone found they were clashing with anyone continuously, that there was no need to keep getting into an argument but to just to use the ignore facility.

Not everyone can get along on a forum we all have different personalities, and sometimes one or 2 just rub each other up the wrong way. Not a pop at you in any way from me. :D
 
applecruncher said:
DameW - okay, okay, okay... I get it. You don't like what I said to whisteria. Lucky for you s/he is most likely still reading and might come back (in response to those who caved to the flounce and begged her/him "please don't go"). Hopefully when/if s/he does return it will be to go to some other thread, seeing as how s/he was instructed on how to put me (the thread starter) on ignore. Kinda strange, but...whatever. :shrug:
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That is not nice Apple. The part where you said (in response to those who caved to the flounce and begged her/him "please don't go").

I didn't BEG to her. And I don't CAVE. I simply say what I feel. Now that I see your response to me, I am wondering if I should have said anything at all to Whisteria. I felt bad for you and wanted to stand up for you................................ You are making me take a second look. Maybe you have been bothering her and I didn't see it. I don't like to see anyone leave a forum because she feels she is being bullied by another member. Now I feel bad that she mentioned my name as one of the reasons she is leaving and I am going to apologize to her.

Whisteria, if you are reading this, please accept my apology. I am seeing a different side of Apple since she got nasty to me also. I don't want you to leave here because of me or anyone. Come on back, things might be a lot different now that you have taken a stand.
 
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I would not keep the money. Plain and simple. Even if it's a million. It's illegal and inhumane to take something that's not mine. We're being tested everyday as to how responsible we are being with our gift of free will…our choices we make. Money goes so quickly but your memory and self worth last a lifetime (well, forget I said "memory" lol). And for believers, God is watching.
 
Red said:
That is not nice Apple. The part where you said (in response to those who caved to the flounce and begged her/him "please don't go").

I didn't BEG to her. And I don't CAVE. I simply say what I feel. Now that I see your response to me, I am wondering if I should have said anything at all to Whisteria. I felt bad for you and wanted to stand up for you................................ You are making me take a second look. Maybe you have been bothering her and I didn't see it. I don't like to see anyone leave a forum because she feels she is being bullied by another member. Now I feel bad that she mentioned my name as one of the reasons she is leaving and I am going to apologize to her.

Whisteria, if you are reading this, please accept my apology. I am seeing a different side of Apple since she got nasty to me also. I don't want you to leave here because of me or anyone. Come on back, things might be a lot different now that you have taken a stand.
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:rolleyes: ... sigh

Hi Red,
Since you obviously want to continue the melodramatics which whisteria started and you persist in anayzing applucruncher and lobbing little grenades and apologizing to someone who supposedly left the forum; I have only one request: could you PLEASE start another thread or take it to PM or email; i.e. someplace else? That would be nice because you are WAY off-topic here. It's insulting, disruptive, boring, and maybe others would prefer to read about/discuss the bag of money. Okay? THANKS! :)
 
Lara said:
I would not keep the money. Plain and simple. Even if it's a million. It's illegal and inhumane to take something that's not mine. We're being tested everyday as to how responsible we are being with our gift of free will…our choices we make. Money goes so quickly but your memory and self worth last a lifetime (well, forget I said "memory" lol). And for believers, God is watching.
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The movie "A Simple Plan" goes into some of the things you mention. I'm thinking of adding it to my (small :) ) DVD "library". Very good movie.
 

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