Sarah Wrote:Not making an effort makes you awful, yes absolutely. If a dog was walking down the street with no tags or collar it doesn't give you the right to take it home and keep it forever, you bring it to the proper authorities where the owner at least has a chance to recover it, regardless of how negligent they may have been. Money should be no different. Just because it's something you want doesn't mean it belongs to you upon finding it.
And bringing up all the things you do right doesn't lessen the things you do wrong.
Rob already beat me to it, but yeah. Finding material possessions on the floor is not the same as dog-napping, Sarah. Even if you found enough cash to purchase your own dog, there's a pretty big difference in finding a pet and finding material goods. Dogs are living creatures that most likely share mutual emotional bonds with their owners, who are worried about the dog as a part of the family rather than worrying about what they lost when dropping cash. Of course, you could pull the "what if they needed the cash to feed their family" example, but that's still not the same as taking their dog away, and it's entirely situational. In any case, if they dropped money, and there's no way of me knowing how badly they needed it, I'm not going to jump to the assumption that they need the money desperately.