A woman was faced with an interesting moral quandary in Naperville this week when she was in a parking deck and spotted a diamond ring with a $25,000 price tag still attached. Without hesitation, she called police and turned it over to authorities, who, three days later were still searching for the band's rightful owner.
What would you do in that situation? What do you think most other people would do? Even if you were tempted to hold onto such a valuable find, would you be afraid of getting caught if you tried to sell it? Would you act differently if you knew -- with absolute certainty -- that you could get away with it?
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I would sell it and pay for my bills. Its not my fault someone lost and it and I found it. The store is lucky I did not find it!
Perhaps it's stolen.
Every decent jewelry place removes the price tag from 'purchased' items.
Regardless, she did the right thing turning it in.
Turn it in.
Karma will get you one day. The universe will take that $$ away from you someway or another, loosing retirement, car, house, something. Don't mess with karma.
Definitely turn it in. Are you kidding?
Who is 'Karma'? What does she look like?
Regardless the circumstances of how this ring got to where it was found there is someone out there who is the true owner of this ring. We may never know the exact circumstances of how this happened but this would be a significant loss to even those among us in Naperville who are truly "well to do".
What each of us would do in a situation like this depends a great deal on several factors... how we were raised as children, the morals and ethics that we use as adults to guide us, our own conscience, and our compassion for our fellow man.
I can't think of a better local example in the recent past for the application of the Golden Rule.
The woman who found the ring knew in her heart what the right thing to do was. Granted she was tempted and given the same circumstances most of us probably would also have been tempted to a certain degree. But she followed her moral compass, overcame the temptation, and did what she knew was right in her heart.
God bless her. May her honesty and kindness to a total stranger be rewarded a thousand times over.