Bingo!
If it had happened to one of them, or if a rich person ended up with a tax refund owed to someone who's lower middle class, then their tune would change. There's no moral underpinning when it comes to liberals, it's all about what was coined as "situation ethics" in the 60's and 70's; IOW, the circumstances dictate what is and isn't moral.
Trash, each and everyone of them.
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Now you have opened a big dark box on situational ethics sir.
Yes I was educated in the 60-70 era of ethics and can say there is a hard line between ethics and survival. Much comes right down to what we interpate as survival, they use to hang toddlers in Europe, children so young they had to place sand bags on their feet to make sure their neck was broken, all for stealing a crust of bread when they had not eaten in days.
Older generations had a saying " Finders keepers, loser's weepers".
Some times it can get you in a heck of a mess by being honest. My kid found a purse in a wooded area and they at 5-7 years old brought it home. We dumped it out and found a drivers license so I called the owner and told her we had her purse and to come and get it.
She shows up with not one but 2 cops, and no they did not jump out of the bushes. Seems like she worked for some small time political in the city.
She accused my little kids of stealing some huge amount of cash from he purse that was stolen from her unlocked car 2-3 miles away from our home.
The five year old baby girl in the family was in tears, the 7 year old boy thought it all a big joke. So as the found area was just a block away we all walked down to the area and the kids pointed out where they found the purse.
I thought when the woman retrieved her purse it was all over, she and cops left.
Next day a cop in plain clothes knocked on my door, and he quizzed the kids on what they were doing in that area. Seems the kids in the neighborhood had a fort of some kind back there and and there were perhaps 6 other kids that played cowboys and Indians or what not there. My kids gave names of the friends they played with and the Detective left.
My phone rang most of the night from the parents of the kids playmates to CUSS me and kids out for sicking the police on their little kids.
A brief couple days went by and then I began to get calls from the woman's insurance company, I finally got the balls to just hang up. Then they came to our house unexpected and made noises about us making a cash settlement for part of the missing cash. Then I began to get letters from her attorney threatening to take me to court. I ignored the letters and hunkered down for all this to go away.
They knew my husband was overseas and I had no family around, fortunately for me this was about the time of school vacation so I closed up the house and headed for Maine with my kids and the dog for a summer visit with my parents. We came back a week before school started and Hubby came off Cruise 2 weeks later.
We never heard another word from cops, the woman, her Lawyer or insurance agent. All bad things and good things have a down side, Lessons galore here. Find something, spend $3.00 and mail it back to the owner anonymously.
If out hiking you find a bag of cash---drug money, do you turn it in so corrupt city officials divie it up between them selves or get little Mary the braces she needs?????
Then there are those that find bags or envelopes that can excuse their keeping the money as a God send. Very tough questions here. Just how strong are our morals that can go either way. ???
