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Originally Posted by bluemoonjules
You are right there. Morally, ethically, and legally, if it did not belong to the seller, then the item does not belong to the OP, whether it cost 10 cents or $10 million..............
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No, just no. I don't even have words to describe how wrong that is. If this Kindle was not valuable, the situation can be compared to picking up a penny on the floor. Clearly a penny on the ground was either lost or stolen as it is discarded, and since you chose to pick it up, according to people in this thread, we should call the cops and report it, forfeit all rights to the penny, make a huge deal about it despite the low value of the item. Jeez guys, it's the right thing to do.
I suppose the point is that in the grand scheme of things, $120 is not a big enough loss for Amazon to care, and even less for the cops to worry about. There's a branch of ethics that assumes the correct thing to do is the action that will yield the least harm and the most gain. By giving the device to the police, you are creating more work for an already strained government agency, pulling resources from stopping crimes that actually matter into dealing with something that is unlikely to get resolved anyways.