If a friend and I were walking on the beach, and we found a ring, phone, and five hundred dollars, I would suggest we try to find the owners of them. It’s not right to take something that isn’t yours. While at first it might be tempting to keep them, it could later have a bad outcome. Taking something that belongs to someone else is wrong for several reasons. First of all, taking something that doesn’t belong to you is a crime. If you take something, knowing it isn’t yours, and you do not make any efforts to find out who it belongs to, you are stealing (Finders Keepers 9). Stealing would be going against the law, and that can have some bad consequences. You could have to pay a fine, end up doing community service, be put on probation, or in a severe case, you could get arrested (Are You Lucky 5). You might argue that if we can’t find the owners, we should keep it, right? Wrong, if you can’t find the owners, you could turn the items in to the police and let them try to find the owners. There is no excuse for keeping someone else’s possessions. As a good citizen, the right thing to do would be to return the items.
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Not returning items to their rightful owners is wrong because it could cause the owners trouble and an overwhelming amount of stress trying to search for them. Remember The Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated,” and the maxim “What goes around comes around.” Imagine the same problem happening to you. Would you want someone to steal what is rightfully yours? Wouldn’t you be worried and want someone to return your items to you? You could argue with the expression “finders keepers losers weepers”, but that does not mean someone finding something by chance has more right to keep it than someone who actually worked hard to get it. It only makes sense that you return the items to their owners because they would be so relieved and thankful that you found their
Not returning items to their rightful owners is wrong because it could cause the owners trouble and an overwhelming amount of stress trying to search for them. Remember The Golden Rule: “Treat others the way you want to be treated,” and the maxim “What goes around comes around.” Imagine the same problem happening to you. Would you want someone to steal what is rightfully yours? Wouldn’t you be worried and want someone to return your items to you? You could argue with the expression “finders keepers losers weepers”, but that does not mean someone finding something by chance has more right to keep it than someone who actually worked hard to get it. It only makes sense that you return the items to their owners because they would be so relieved and thankful that you found their