Why Do Kind Strangers Return Our Wallets?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/world/asia/lost-and-found-wallet.html

by ChrisArchitect • 2 years ago

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ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/19/world/asia/lost-and-found...

degenerate• 2 years ago

"empathy" "right" "help" "hope" "same"

None of those words appear in the article. I can deduce that the author of this article would never return a wallet. If they are this perplexed at the good deeds of others, and need to turn to science for a reason, they are as dense as a brick.

Reasons:

- because kind strangers have empathy

- because kind strangers want to do what is right, and help others

- because kind strangers would hope the same thing is done when they lose their own wallet

reify• 2 years ago

There are indeed honest people in the world.

Imagine the sense of personal satisfaction if you are able to do a deed like that.

It has happened twice in my life:

I left the bank one day after drawing out £1000, about a 100M down the street and a woman tapped me on the shoulder and said "Excuse me you have just dropped this?". amazing!

another time I had just filled up with petrol. Got to my front door and realised that I had left my wallet on the roof of my car after arguing with trouble. Money, credit cards, driving licence everything! I flew back to the petrol station and it was nowhere to be seen.

I went home dejected. An hour later my phone rang. It was the local police, they said someone had handed in my wallet to the station and did I want to pop along and pick it up. The police officer said that she had asked that I call her to thank her. Too right I did.

Why Do Kind Strangers Return Our Wallets?

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