A Moral Dilemma
Mohammad J Atique
Amberton University

Facts:
About couple of months ago, I was working in my store which is cellular phone store where we take payments and sell cellular phones. A customer walked in on a Sunday and was inebriated, he wanted to pay his bill. The customer bill was close to a hundred dollar. He gave me all twenty dollar bills, when I counted them they were six twenty dollar bills. Which were twenty more than his bill. I had a choice to return the twenty or keep it. If I would have kept it he wouldn’t have known. But I decided to give the money back to the customer, because my conscious wouldn’t allow me to keep the money. After the customer was gone I thought about it and I came to the conclusion that the twenty dollar I didn’t keep would not make me any richer or poorer than what I already was.
Statement:
Would the twenty dollar will make me richer or poorer.
Solution:
In this problem there are only two possible solution. A. Give the money back. B. Or you keep the money.
On the first part when you give it back, you are dealing with a multitude of issues, starting with you ethical behavior, your upbringing, and your conscious. What I mean by this is when, I got the money I could have kept it but it would have been morally wrong of me to keep the money that didn’t belong to me. As a person I have always tried to do the right thing. And if I keep the money I would have been doing the wrong against all the principles that I have been fighting for all my life. That will kick my conscious in to action and I would not have been able to live with that decision. The other thing is, while doing that I made the customer happy and he would trust more into my business and would come back knowing there are honest people working here. . Also the satisfaction I got from giving the money back that I could sleep guilt free at night. On the other hand I could have kept the money and no would have known that I kept the money since the customer had no clue. As a human being my first instinct was to keep the money, by doing that I would have been going away from my upbringing and all the forty years of my ethical code which I have been living by. So when I decided to give the money back I was doing the right thing and I was proud of myself that I did the right thing. NO one was there to give me a pat on back to do the right thing except my conscious, and that is a very powerful thing in us human being, we live and die by the conscious. If we make a wrong decision it can haunt us for a long time. I am glad that made the right one for several reasons. One it was my place of business and giving back the money means I entrusted my business in front of the customer. Other if I would have kept the money what would I have done with put it in cd and let it grow a minimal amount and it wouldn’t help me solve the budget crisis I face every month. So the money was not that important, the important thing was that I was able to keep my conscious happy and morally intact.
I could have kept the money and yes I would have been twenty dollars richer that day, which I could have used to buy beer and cigarettes and would not have to worry about my bank account been low for that day I could have also grabbed a nice meal with the twenty dollars, but again I could have gotten food poising from that meal. So all in all I would at the end of the still be thinking that this money didn’t belong to me and would have lost sleep over it. So my decision to give the money back was the right one and I can live with it for rest of life.

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