07-06-2016, 06:50 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
A reward equal to 0.05% of the returned money? It would have been less insulting to give no reward at all.
I'm surprised that you feel that anyone is entitled to a reward simply for being honest.
That is not at all what I said. Please re-read what I wrote:
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I'm not arguing that the finder should expect a large reward, or a reward of any size, for that matter. I'm arguing that if the rightful owner of the money was going to go to the trouble of providing a reward, that act of gratitude should have been commensurate with the magnitude of the finder's act of honesty.
The monetary amounts in the "five cent reward for returning $100" example I provided above were not randomly selected - the ratio between the returned sum and the reward offered in my example is approximately equal to that of the returned sum and the reward offered in this case. So I ask again: If you were to find and return $100 to someone, would you be more insulted if the person offered a nickel as a reward than if they offered no reward at all?
EDIT: For the record, I have also turned down a proffered reward for returning lost goods (a wallet with a number of credit cards and about $60 cash in it) for exactly the reason you stated: the act of returning the lost property was its own reward. The owner of the wallet offered me all of the cash inside of it as a reward, an offer I graciously refused. Had she decided to offer me three pennies as a reward for my honest act, however, I would have considered that a grievous insult.