> If you truly believe in the value of honesty, and you're walking down
a deserted beach and see a beautiful rolidex watch half submerged in
the sand, do you pick up and keep it? If you live and act conguently
with your value of honesty - No! That would be dishonest -- it's not
yours and you know it! You leave the rolidex there and let someone
else pick it up and keep it! >
Personally I would pick it up, seek a way of locating the owner and if
that did not work sell it for charity - but then I don't value flashy
watches.
The parable though Gary triggers the thought that the dilemma is posed as
act for 'self-interest' versus 'altruism'. I suspect there is always going
to be such a dilemma. Why are any of us here on the list for example. I
could list a host of self-interested reasons and express, hopefully with
validity, an equal set of 'good-values' driven reasons. I think we may
have to learn to live with and accept both as a reality. The defence may
be open-ness and honesty [a thought triggered by a recent post from Joan
on another thread which has inadvertently gone the way of a discarded
digest].
If Price
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