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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 403885, member: 15062&quot;]If we look at Deuteronomy 22:1-3, we find that we are required to return lost property to its owner.&nbsp; This is not an option; It <i>must</i> be done.&nbsp; Of course, this presupposes that we know who the owner is.</p><p><br /></p><p>Jewish law has interpreted this further to require that, if the lost property&#039;s owner is not known, an honest effort must be made to find them through advertisements, etc.&nbsp; If this is impractical, impossible or unproductive, then the found property should be given to charity.&nbsp; Another person&#039;s loss can not be transfered to your gain just because it&#039;s convenient for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many religions aren&#039;t quite so precise as to what to do but in Christianity,&nbsp; some combination of Commandments 7 and 8 pretty well spell out what (not) to do.&nbsp; [7 - don&#039;t take another&#039;s property (without just compensation); 8 - don&#039;t lie (by omission or commission)]</p><p><br /></p><p>Practically all other tenets have similar proscriptions.&nbsp; Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Native American Spirituality, etc. all teach that taking that which belongs to another is wrong, whether it is stolen outright or taken by subterfuge.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am amazed by how many ways some posters here can justify harming another by their (in)actions.&nbsp; And remember, a person can be harmed directly so that they know it, or indirectly by deceit when you withhold information that they apparently do not have and, with which they might have taken a different course of action.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Your loss is my gain&quot; and &quot;Finders keepers, losers weepers&quot; are simply platitudes used to salve the conscience of those whose moral values have gone awry.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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