if i could, i would. yes, we've all been selfish at times, but what you did goes far beyond selfishness. you literally took someone else's money right in front of them. frankly i find it appalling that you're even attempting to justify your actions. take your karmic reward for being a douche and shut the **** up.

Your replies truly show your intelligence. OP - you pocketed some money, despite hearing someone else say it was theirs. There's a very big difference between selfishness and theft. I've been selfish - when I was a kid, I sometimes didn't share toys with my sister, and there have been times I didn't help others when I could/should have, or when I've pushed others to help me. That is selfishness. Stealing someone else's money is NOT selfishness, it's theft.

ummm... there are many ways to put it? in a way it is selfishness, and theft, by stealing you are being selfish. and i did mention stealing in my post, but in a different way. damn, u tell me i have no intelligence but in fact you are egocentric and a retarded asshole who is trying to put me down even more. please re-evaluate my intelligence, and my evaluation of yours is that you are a shitbrain. if i had a job, trust me, i wouldn't be arguing with kid like you.

Either way, you deserved it... it's your own fault you don't have a job now. Just because you were having a bad day doesn't mean you should take something from someone. If the guy hadn't yelled out for you to give it back, then it would be different. I work at a shitty job full time where I probably won't be getting a raise anytime soon, and I definitely wouldn't risk it for $100. I've got mouths to feed.

wait a second, i think i need to mention that i lost a hell of a lot of money when lehmann brothers bankrupted. plus, my salary isn't exactly fantastical. try to imagine urself in my place when my fml took place before u condemn me...

Oh, you're having money problems? Well, stealing is okay then! *sarcasm*

I'm with you OP. Everyone likes to point out 'moral faults' in other people to try and make themselves feel better. I don't think anyone out here wouldn't have done the same thing.

Uh, no. Finding 100 dollars, sure, most of us would keep it. But when the guy who owns it calls after it, I'm sure a lot of us would give it back. The OP is a pretty big douche, anyway...he isn't "anyone", he's a dick, and he thought he was entitled to the money. Not only this, but he thought he would find sympathy from regular people (on the internet, no less), as if he didn't do anything wrong. Stealing isn't a thing that just "anyone" does.

Right and wrong don't change based on your personal circumstances. It would have been one thing to pocket the money if no one was around, but when someone actually calls out to you saying "Hey that's mine!" you ******* give it back, dumbass.

Shut the **** up, you knew the risk when you joined the market. Just because you lost money doesn't give you the right to steal, dumbfuck.

"Of your life savings" does not mean all your life savings. And think about other people for once. You lost a lot, and in YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES you cannot be charitable. Charity is giving something you have to someone who has nothing or very little. I don't see how stealing some money some guy lost is being charitable. If anything being in your shoes would mean you want to help people who might lose money as well.

EXACTLY. How the hell would your NOT STEALING be considered charity? Giving someone's lost money back does NOT equal charity, it's just doing the right thing.

Witchcraft, you are like the coolest person on here. Mostly because you agree with me. And your name is kick ass.

Whoops, my reply went to the wrong spot. Thanks, RubixMonkey, right back at ya. ^^ You speak the truth, and you use great logic, unlike this dumbass.

WORD. LOL. I wish that were always the case but Op is jerky enough logic just seems to fall out of the sky.

I want to know why he's saying "dollars" if he's from Hong Kong. *shrug* Didn't see your comment until just now, by the way. I think we've wreaked havoc on this page, because now everything's all jumbled and out of order. XD

Hey, I've so far lost about ten thousand dollars in the stock market (and I'm only eighteen, so I'm REALLY going to be feeling that when it comes time to go to college), but I have neither complained or contemplated stealing someone else's hard-earned money just because life's going to be rougher for me than it would have been. (And I didn't even make the decision to put it all in the market like YOU did- my family put all my money in there.)