...If you ever fear the world is losing good, honest people...

[Adi Shankara]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10603417.stm


A Pakistani hotel employee has won acclaim after handing in over $50,000 (£33,000) in cash that had been left behind by a guest.
Essa Khan, 51, discovered the money in $100 notes left in the room of a Japanese worker at the Serena Hotel in Gilgit.
Mr Khan, who earns about 21,000 rupees ($235; £153) a month, says he never considered keeping the money.
He has been invited to receive an award from a state governor for his honesty.
"My duty with the hotel and my family upbringing teaches me nothing else," he said.
"Times are hard for everyone, but that doesn't mean we should start stealing and taking things which do not belong to us."
Poor guy. he should've took at least a 1000 dollars worth. most of that money came from exploitation at the hands of corrup businessmen anyways (I have a hard time believing any capitalist is non-corrupt).

Regardless of his situation though, you can't help but be moved by his complete honesty. I wish the world was full of people like Essa Khan.

[Adi Shankara]

EDIT: what else makes me think that the money was acquired by the businessmen corruptly, was who just carries around 50,000 in cash like that in Pakistan, which is by many accounts, the most corrupt state on earth?

[Sam_b]

Oh cool, here comes Thomas Sankara with another 'what if' post.

[Adi Shankara]

Oh cool, here comes Thomas Sankara with another 'what if' post.

you have a real bug up your ass. I suggest you stop chewing down there, it seems to be spreading from your mouth.

...I could say "oh look, here comes another acne laden kid with a computer who uses an animated dog from a show who's contribution to society is an advance in "fart" and "retard" jokes, all while realizing that Brian Griffin is a stereotypical statist leftcon?

you have a real bug up your ass. I suggest you stop chewing down there, it seems to be spreading from your mouth.

Seriously, How is that a "what-if" post? it was just a post that had some general good news.

[Pretty Flaco]

I wouldn't give the money back. I would call giving it back "honest", but certainly not "good".

[Adi Shankara]

I wouldn't give the money back. I would call giving it back "honest", but certainly not "good".

my point was his ethics. he put his honor and ethics above himself, and that is admirable.

[Tablo]

It is admirable and while he and most people would see it as being the right thing to do, I think he should have just kept it.

[ContrarianLemming]

The result of his taking of the money would have brought more happiness, he should have taken it.

[Sam_b]

you have a real bug up your ass. I suggest you stop chewing down there, it seems to be spreading from your mouth

I'm crying inside.


...I could say "oh look, here comes another acne laden kid with a computer who uses an animated dog from a show who's contribution to society is an advance in "fart" and "retard" jokes, all while realizing that Brian Griffin is a stereotypical statist leftcon?

Its got to the point you're trying to critique the politics of my avatar? Mercy!

[Adi Shankara]

I'm crying inside.

wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.




Its got to the point you're trying to critique the politics of my avatar? Mercy!

like you haven't criticized me on my avatar before? lol that's the shitpot telling other pots they stink :lol:

this is getting annoying. grow up.

[Dr. Fish]

or taken the money, given it to the organization that would give it back to him and his class through services like feeding the poor etc.

[Sam_b]

like you haven't criticized me on my avatar before?

Why don't you back that assertion up then champ?

[Adi Shankara]

lol this thread :rolleyes:. originally, I was just saying his intentions were good. I agree, he should've kept the money, but I'm just saying that some people still have such honor codes make me feel good about humanity, that is all.

[ContrarianLemming]

lol this thread :rolleyes:. originally, I was just saying his intentions were good. I agree, he should've kept the money, but I'm just saying that some people still have such honor codes make me feel good about humanity, that is all.

i think it would have been more honorable to steal. Thats a hell ova code to.

Hey utilitarianism or the high way buddy.

[Adi Shankara]

Why don't you back that assertion up then champ?

right as soon as you tell me how my thread was a "what if" post.

starting shit on the internet is REALLY unbecoming, tough guy. again. grow up; I think you got "21" in your age description backwards.

[Raúl Duke]

I would've most likely considered keeping the money...If I could get away with it.

[ContrarianLemming]

Sam B, whatever you think it is you're doing, it's trolling

[Sam_b]

right as soon as you tell me how my thread was a "what if" post.



who just carries around 50,000 in cash like that in PakistanHowever, your question will be one that continues to 'argue down' if this is a 'what if' or not, in lieu for you having nothing to back up your own allegation. Regardless, I don't see why this is in learning rather than chit-chat.

EDIT:


importent teenage rage


...I could say "oh look, here comes another acne laden kid with a computer who uses an animated dog from a show who's contribution to society is an advance in "fart" and "retard" jokes, all while realizing that Brian Griffin is a stereotypical statist leftcon?#

You could always show me where I've 'raged', of course. Though I don't think backing things up is your forte.

[Adi Shankara]

Sam B, whatever you think it is you're doing, it's trolling

nah, it's only trolling if it pisses someone off. this is just what my mother used to call "impotent teenage rage" :laugh:

[ContrarianLemming]

nah, it's only trolling if it pisses someone off. this is just what my mother used to call "impotent teenage rage"

I tihnk it's just unpleasant to read, virtually all his posts.

[Adi Shankara]

You could always show me where I've 'raged', of course. Though I don't think backing things up is your forte.


Oh cool, here comes Thomas Sankara with another 'what if' post.


ITP: Thomas Sankara fails to make a joke about somebody's age.
I hear Michael Buble heals the soul if you can't go off crying to your mother.

sounds like you're mad, bro

[Adi Shankara]

Request the mod to trash this thread. it's pointless now, and has been degenerated by useless bickering, myself included.

[Q]

In many societies it is considered normal to give a finder a fee for giving it back, something like 5%. What a worthless piece of shit that just took the money and left.

[Blackscare]

I'd have taken that money and given it to the party in the country whose politics I most agreed with, or an insurgency I suppose. I call that honest :D

[ZeroNowhere]

Given that the room was owned by a Japanese worker, did the money then belong to him?

[Dimentio]

Sam B, you are a bad, bad, REALLY bad dog in this thread. :(

[The Red Next Door]

However, your question will be one that continues to 'argue down' if this is a 'what if' or not, in lieu for you having nothing to back up your own allegation. Regardless, I don't see why this is in learning rather than chit-chat.

EDIT:



#

You could always show me where I've 'raged', of course. Though I don't think backing things up is your forte.


Do you have to be a jerk?

[Weezer]

Oh cool, here comes Thomas Sankara with another 'what if' post.

Oh cool, here comes Sam_b with another 'I'm trying hard to be funny' post.

[samofshs]

The result of his taking of the money would have brought more happiness, he should have taken it.
money doesn't bring happiness. this is why i'm a communist.

[this is an invasion]

I support Sam b