Imagine being in high school and your teacher asks for help solving an ethical problem. The teacher bought a desk from a complete stranger for $150 on Craigslist. He picked up the desk and took it home in his mini-van. A friend helped carry it into the house. Unfortunately the desk was a little too big to get through the door of the room where the teacher wanted to put the desk.
They tried taking the door off its hinges but still the desk didn’t fit through the doorway. Then they started to take the desk apart, figuring they could move it in pieces better than whole.
After taking off the top of the desk the teacher noticed a plastic bag stuck behind the desk's file drawers. Inside the bag were some $100 bills. Lots of them. By the time he finished counting all the money in the bag stuck behind drawers in the desk he bought for $150, the teacher had counted up $98.000. Now the teacher asks his students for advice: Should he invest the $98,000 for his four children’s education or give the money to a charity or to his school, or return the money to the woman who sold him the desk?
