Honesty and discount stores

Haha. Some posters do go a bit overboard here sometimes.

Regardless of what some people insinuated, I actually think it is pretty normal in such situations to weigh the pros and cons of returning it. There is a level at which it isn't worth it and while that is unfortunate, I think failing to return something accidentally acquired isn't really all that evil. Nor is breaking something and getting a discount on it. Wrong, sure, but that individual isn't suddenly evil incarnate. It's easy to talk grandly and pretend to be on some moral high ground but in reality we are all quite flawed. I sincerely doubt most people would actually walk 5 miles round trip (esp since the avg american walks 2.5mi a day total) to get screamed at, threatened, and told to strip merely for the feel-goods. Questioning whether or not to do that, I think, is quite reasonable and normal.

It does make me wonder what lengths they think they would go to. Maybe what I went through was ok or as some people implied: deserved, but would they buy a plane ticket to return something they accidentally acquired on vacation, drive 10 hours, or finally postmark that book they "borrowed" from a friend? Would they be ok being spat on? Arrested? Spread across national television? I'm curious as to where they think their line is.

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