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"On your way to your minimum wage job, you find a suitcase containing $500,000. You later hear that one of the richest politicians in your country has lost his suitcase, and the description matches the one you found. What would you do?"
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To be very honest, I don't know how I would feel with regards to my conscience because I haven't done something like this before, even though I have seen people feel very comfortable after carting away with money that’s not theirs. But the truth remains that I would keep the money, and I have enough reasons to back up that decision.
I hope my friends — one foreign friend in particular — don't come across this article, because I’ll be drastically rated zero. Lol.
I would check properly to make sure that the suitcase does not have a chip installed on it to make it trackable. Or better still, I would just burn off the suitcase and have the money poured into a bag, then keep it somewhere very safe — not to be used until the whole saga about the money dies down. Yes, I wouldn’t spend it at that particular moment or bother going to the bank to make a deposit. It’s sounding like I’ve done something like that before, right? Lol. If I ever become a thief, do you think I would be caught? No way! Except God just decides to punish me. But I would pray to God to always forgive me before any move/operation, so He wouldn't see any reason to punish me in the process — after all, He's a merciful God. 😏
The reasons why I would keep the money?
The prompt stated that the politician is one of the richest, so that means the $500,000 would be like he lost just $100. Don’t you think so? And to crown it all, that money — as we know what politicians are capable of — is not actually theirs. They earn way too much at the expense of the citizens. Oh yeah, most of their earnings and wealth come from the nation’s resources, which are supposed to be used to make the country a better place, but they divert all of that into their personal pockets.
You want to say it’s not all politicians that do that?
Ohhh! All the ones I know do it comfortably. There are no righteous politicians!
If they encounter a loss, it won’t take them a long time to bounce back or recover. Yes, that’s the political system for you!
So I would take the money as part of my national cake, since it takes the grace of God and good connections to have a bite of the national cake.
But like I said earlier, since I haven’t done something like this before, my conscience needs to be cooked and hardened to be able to live comfortably after keeping the money.
Thanks for reading.