[dtrainor]

Originally Posted by disney_mommy

Of course I was making assumptions about your character. Isn't that what a post is - your opinion, the sum of which defines your character? When you say that "Most people, when finding something, do not value it as the lost possession of another," I gathered you were speaking of you and the people you know. So yes, I formed an opinion of you and the company you keep. And the fact that you wouldn't even consider doing the right thing unless you received gratification says quite a bit.

More strawmen from disney mommy.

I never said I'd not consider doing the right thing unless I received gratification; my original post implicating doing what you would perceive as the "right thing" was done without any promise of gratification. It was that very lack thereof that helped me form my opinion, in fact. Don't confuse the cause with the effect.

As I said previously, I am pleased to not be an aquaintance of yours. And if the fact that I hold other people's valuables as their personal property and not mine to take when they turn their back makes my rear end uptight, then that's fine with me.

I have no knowledge of that being a fact. I'd more readily believe you're a liar pandering for approval on the forums. In what instance has your good samaritan virtues been put on display? Who do you return lost money to? The rightful owner, right? You should write a book about your adventures. I'd read it on my Kindle, the one I had the sense not to lose.

You join a board for mobile readers, then use your first post to say that something that doesn't belong to you is okay to keep, and you are surprised that everyone here urges the OP to return someone's lost item? Perhaps you don't belong in this "cult" (by which I'm sure you meant an incredibly large group of people of all ages from all walks of life and all corners of the earth who come together to intelligently discuss reading in general and ereaders in specific, all while maintaining a sense of neighborly conduct).

It's quite clear you meant that, and I meant no such thing.

How did this become about my parenting? If anything, from my posts you have surely learned that I have raised my son to be a kind and thoughful person who will return things that do not belong to him. And I can assure you that I know from experience that that is exactly who he is.

It's this same tired naivete that led you to believe you were a good parent to begin with. What makes you think your son is so honest? I bet your son is using the lost Kindle in question as we speak.

I never assumed you singled me out, I was simply responding to a post which upset me. You can't expect to make such statements and not receive responses from people who disagree with your opinions.

I didn't involve my emotions in the affair. I'm sorry if you made that mistake.

I can assure you that you have not caused me any wounds, for the opinions of a selfish egomaniac mean nothing to me. I will however, spend my time on other threads of this board where people of intelligence reside.

So I haven't caused any wounds, yet in the preceding paragraph you admit to getting upset.

Your story checks out nicely. I'm not going to write you off as a contradicting liar because I haven't earned that right as a member of your little cult thus far. Rest assured I'm looking forward to it upon gaining acceptance in the group.