Mailinglist Archives:
Infrared
Panorama
Photo-3D
Tech-3D
Sell-3D
MF3D

Notice
This mailinglist archive is frozen since May 2001, i.e. it will stay online but will not be updated.
<-- Date Index --> <-- Thread Index --> [Author Index]

[photo-3d] Re: Grant's RBT


  • From: Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Re: Grant's RBT
  • Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:47:32 -0800 (PST)

This isn't a grey area.  If you find someone's lost property, be it a lost
wallet, dog, child or car, it is not yours to hold for profit, reward or
ransom, once the owner has found you and made a proven claim of ownership.
 The camera was not "donated," it was lost in a shuffle.  In some
knee-jerk rush to be "non-judgemental" let's not get ridiculous.  The man
has no "side," to defend, no ethical case to make, no decent claim to
anything here, when presented with the kind of identification Grant and
John G are able to make.

There are, thankfully, many people who in the same place would see that
they should immediately return the camera for their actual cost, and be
glad to have helped another man who'd had a rotten piece of luck and a bad
scare.  And yes, the ones who do this are "better" than the ones who
don't.  It doesn't take "infinite wisdom" to figure that out.  Just what
used to be common honesty and maturity.

Bruce 



__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. 
http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/