Moral Consequences and Choices
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... be measured. Some factors can be dismissed immediately- the extent: there are just two individuals involved. Certainty and propinquity can also be dismissed because both will experience some pleasure and some pain, and they will both be felt as soon as the wallet was dropped. If the poor man still decides to keep the money, purity would count against him because his pleasure would also contain some pain (feeling of guilt at taking the money, the after-effects of the drink). The poor manīs pleasure at finding the money will probably more intense than the rich manīs irritation at losing his wallet. Also, the poor manīs pleasure will last longer than the rich manīs pain and the poor manīs pleasure will produce further pleasures in a way that the rich manīs pain will not produce further pain. The conclusion of these calculations suggests that the poor man should keep the money. If the poor man were to return the wallet to the rich man, the rich manīs pleasure at ge ...
