A week ago, if you can remember that far (I, of course, can’t), I said that I would resume the topic of morality.

Specifically, What should you do if you find a money clip with thousands of dollars in it?

I wouldn’t recommend yelling about it, or giving it to a corrupt Democrat politician. I would sit on it, and try to go to confession.

Confession, for those of you not in the Catholic faith, is a sacred discussion of morals and penalties between a sinner and a priest. Ideally, only one is a sinner. This meeting is held in holy confidence, and no judge or jury can compel the breaking of this bond.

However:

The priest may wonder how you got these thousands of dollars, and what you are going to do with them. This goes double for any spiritual advisor who is not Catholic. They will just ask you, and everyone they know, outright.

Which brings us to your publicizing it. “I just found thousands of dollars,” you might put in the newspaper, which is not a smart move, or “If you lost something worth thousands of dollars, please contact this address.” Good luck with that. IMAO can’t advise this, unless you have a CCW permit.

A gynecologist I know, who is a very smart man, suggests you might turn the thousands in to the local police department, but then you are depending on them to be more moral than you are, which is, quite frankly, a lot to ask of them.

So what is the moral solution? A church or a charity would be nice, but so would a steak dinner at a swank restaurant. The Bible offers no guidance on this, beyond “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s,” but Caesar is dead (and rightfully so), so the answer becomes:

Enjoy your damned steak.

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