I ordered 4 pairs of shoes online. I received 3, 1 if which was damaged.
A few days later I called to complaint about the missing shoe and the damaged shoe. They tell me nothing they can do about the damaged shoe, but will pay me back for the undelivered shoe and that they knew already as the stock had actually run out and the return was already in process.
The transaction went through today, I received payment for all 4 shoes…
So basically I got 2 shoes plus a damaged shoe for free
I disagree. A moral universalist view would hold that taking what isn’t yours is wrong, full stop. You can argue there are degrees to it - that stealing from a cancer patient causes more harm than stealing from a megacorporation - but something being less bad than the alternative still doesn’t make it good or right. From a purely moral standpoint, the right thing to do is to let them know they overpaid. Treat others as you’d want to be treated yourself.
… Do you know what moral relativism vs moral universalism are?
Those morals are your opinion. They are not fact. Arguing them as fact is already questionable.
There is multiple positions on morals. there is no such thing as a moral which is universally a standard of morals.
Even if morality isn’t objective, we still need shared rules to make society livable. “Don’t take what isn’t yours” is one of those rules - not because it’s some cosmic truth, but because ignoring it makes cooperation impossible. There can be rare exceptions where breaking it is justified, but that still doesn’t make it right.
And just to be clear - you haven’t actually given me a reason to rethink that. You’ve just said I’m wrong, without explaining why your view should replace mine. If your goal is to challenge my reasoning, then engage with the reasoning. Otherwise I don’t see what the point of all this is.