Mountain climber finds treasure chest on glacier

[Kramodlog]

Pretty cool. This guy found jewels from a Indian plane crash on top of Mont Blanc. Theyr are worth like 300k.

I think he should have kept them for himself.

 

[Dioltach]

I'd be tempted (who wouldn't), but in the end I hope I'd do the right thing. If nothing else, it seems a bit ghoulish to me to keep something that probably belonged to someone who died in the crash.

(I also tell waiters in restaurants if they've left something off my bill.)

 

[Kramodlog]

Why is it the right thing? Unless you're a veggan, you eat dead things all the time, why would it be worse to take minerals from the ancient dead?

 

[Crothian]

The planes crashed 50 years ago, this is not Black Beard's gold. It is very possible the rightful owners of the items at the time of the plane crash are still alive. I know if I had family that had died in a plane crash that I would like something of theirs found again returned to me.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

I'd be tempted (who wouldn't), but in the end I hope I'd do the right thing. If nothing else, it seems a bit ghoulish to me to keep something that probably belonged to someone who died in the crash.

(I also tell waiters in restaurants if they've left something off my bill.)

Why would it be ghoulish? Don't you have anything passed down to you from now deceased family members?

 

[Kramodlog]

The planes crashed 50 years ago, this is not Black Beard's gold. It is very possible the rightful owners of the items at the time of the plane crash are still alive. I know if I had family that had died in a plane crash that I would like something of theirs found again returned to me.

It being worth 300k is just a coincidence. /wink

 

[Crothian]

It being worth 300k is just a coincidence. /wink

The sentimental value of items of a loved one out weigh any perceived monetary value they might have. However, since that are of such monetary value that would make the crime of stealing them potentially more severe. The article does say that if the rightful owners cannot be located then the mountain climber can claim them.

 

[MarkB]

I think he should have kept them for himself.

Nah, they don't really match his eyes.

 

[Kramodlog]

Nah, they don't really match his eyes.

True true, but they do match his aura.

 

[Kramodlog]

The sentimental value of items of a loved one out weigh any perceived monetary value they might have. However, since that are of such monetary value that would make the crime of stealing them potentially more severe. The article does say that if the rightful owners cannot be located then the mountain climber can claim them.

So why mention sentimentality? Do not tell meyou find this immoral to the point that nostalgia needs to be protection of the law.