Reply #43: Okay, I'll bite [View All]

[teenagebambam]

Who am I to judge what someone else can "afford to lose"? I wear very nice clothes, most of the time. If I were walking down the street and a twenty dropped out of my pocket, a casual observer might look at me and think that losing $20 wouldn't affect me in the least. But the reality is, that 20 bucks is likely all I have to live on until the next payday. Just because someone is idiotic enough to carry a million dollars of jewelery in their handbag doesn't mean the loss of those jewels would be bearable - as I understand it, the couple was in NYC for their daughter's wedding. Maybe she brought all the jewelery she owned to wear to the wedding. Maybe she didin't trust the hotel safe. There could be a million different explanations.

And anyway - keeping something that's not yours can NEVER be justified as "okay", no matter the circumstances of the person that lost it.