you landlord gives you a check for your last month of rent & your security deposit.
the check is written out for $1,200.
you paid $533 for the last month of rent
& $533 for the security deposit.
what you expected to get was a check for $1,066.
$1,200-$1,066=$144 difference.
what do you do?
do you keep the $144 difference & chalk it up to
- well - I'm broke, about to head off biking cross-country, plus - I put up with the monster in the basement for months - this is just a little bonus that makes up for it.
do you give back the $144 thinking
- yeah, we could really use that money for our bike trip, plus we're poor - but later he'll realize his mistake & there'll be nothing he can do about it, so I'd better just do the "right thing" and return the money now.
- I need all the good karma I can get. If I accidently overpaid someone, I'd want them to let me know.
- keeping this money is a Sin. God will punish me for sinning.
Either way - if you give the money back, aren't you just acting out of fear?
Fear of God, of doing the "wrong thing" & getting bad karma
How many of us,
when given the chance to do "good" or
to do the "right thing"
make that choice from our hearts
or make that choice from fear?
Does it matter your reasoning behind your actions of "good"
or is it just more important that you're doing "good"?
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking - H Jackson Brown Jr
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