Group hug time so we can feel good, that is important, but the kid was doing good with someone else’s money. This would have been heartwarming if it was his grass cutting money. If he had given it to a Greenpeace activist there would have been a completely different reaction on this forum.
How about an opposing sad story? Like it was an old crippled person’s $20 who goes to Cracker Barrel once a month as a treat and this was the $20 they were going to give to their grandchild for their birthday? Wouldn’t it be nice for them to get their $20 back?
Conservatives are supposed to have principles that extend beyond “if it feels good do it..”.
He should have found someone at Cracker Barrel and told them he found some money outside and asked if someone had reported some money lost. If not he could have left a contact number so he could be reached if someone did try to claim it. He didn’t need to disclose how much was found or give it to anyone.
It was in the freaking parking lot! It could have blown in from anywhere!
And stop with the boo hoo little me alternative sob story. I'll win the lottery tonight because that's the same odds as your speculation.
As to leaving a contact number, stop living on the planet unicorn.
I found a dollar once, I guess I should have tried to locate the owner.
Your sense of doing the "correct" thing suggests you have a rather rigid sense of right and wrong foregoing the situational reality.
Look,
Chances are pretty good that 9 out of 10 people he might have asked would have said they lost it, even if they had NOT.
You know that as well as I do.
That being said, while a lot of kids are of the “gimmee, get me, buy me” persuasion, this little boy did something wonderful!
I am proud of him and for him.
Perhaps his young father was wondering what would happen to his son as he was dying, who knows?
He can rest in peace knowing his little guy is gonna be a wonderful man when he grows up.
That boys Mom is doing an outstanding job with him, and I salute them both!
This is true. OTOH, it is appropriate to consider that from the child's POV. Namely, that he knew that it had come to him gratuitously, and not a result of his own effort. And that there was no way obvious to him (or, I confess, to me) to return it to its rightful owner. As to the "gratuitous" nature of the find, it is instructive to the Christian to consider it in relation to "the Lord's Prayer," a.k.a "the Our Father," a.k.a. "the model prayer" (since it was given to the disciples as a model, and was not presented as Jesus' own prayer to the Father):“‘Our Father in heaven,Notice if you will that, our own efforts notwithstanding, we are to consider our food, and indeed all our possessions, to have come from God. IOW, I see no difference between the food set before that same child by his mother, and the $20 which came from his Heavenly Father.
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Group hug time so we can feel good, that is important, but the kid was doing good with someone else’s money. This would have been heartwarming if it was his grass cutting money. If he had given it to a Greenpeace activist there would have been a completely different reaction on this forum.
How about an opposing sad story? Like it was an old crippled person’s $20 who goes to Cracker Barrel once a month as a treat and this was the $20 they were going to give to their grandchild for their birthday? Wouldn’t it be nice for them to get their $20 back?
Conservatives are supposed to have principles that extend beyond “if it feels good do it..”.
He should have found someone at Cracker Barrel and told them he found some money outside and asked if someone had reported some money lost. If not he could have left a contact number so he could be reached if someone did try to claim it. He didn’t need to disclose how much was found or give it to anyone.
*group hug* is right! Sorry for jumping on you but I saw no way for him to return the money and I ‘spoke’ without thinking.