If you go to any third world country, people live and die by this behavior: I will do something because I can (not illegal, the benefit outweighs the risk or simply because it's what others would do). It's not a coincident that those countries, nation, people as a collectivity can never get out of the bottom, the individuals who form the greater societies are all busy finding a way to be the better crook than the next one and it naturally reflects to each and every single thing they do. In hopeless places, this problem is part of the DNAs, perpetuate and expand through generations. The evil side of every human being will likely accept open arms this way of living unconsciously even the conscious side knows that it's the root of all problems.
Have a look at the top nations in the world (not necessary the wealthiest) and they all share some very basic traits: honest, hard working people, much higher moral parameters, self respect and discipline. They live within a set of basic laws unconsciously which don't need any legal system to regulate. They are guilty against theirs own courts way before the justice system. You can go to Japan and leave your stuffs unguarded for a period of times and will have a great chance to recover it. People who goes by won't even ask themselves the question if it's ok to pick it up because unconsciously they know it's not the right thing to do. They won't even have to think or having a personal debate about it. This is exactly the opposite behavior of the can do behavior. The unconscious side of any human being actually define that person much more than the conscious side. If you have to ask yourself constantly whether a basic action is the right thing to do (looking for a way out) or not, you're probably heading to the bad side than the opposite direction simply because of the zillions examples, references and excuses for being immoral in this current world
Any law system can only regulate so much and is, to the evil minds, a guideline for educated robbers to find holes and take advantage of it. It's scarier when the laws itself are put in place to protect the crooks with powers. The world polarize with high end crooks, the one with powers, money and influence, on top and at the bottom, low end crooks with audacity and no boundary means to get to the next level quickly. It's like playing a hard game where the ultimate purpose is to look for the cheat code. It's the vicious circle. People will use it to justify anything because, as we can see, everybody are evils, the ones of top are living examples. People who actually try to live a normal life, sandwiched in the middle, get thinner and fewer and eventually pushed to either camp.
The USA, Canada to a lesser extend, and a few other wealthy nations are examples of great places going to the wrong direction: power first, money second, society built for rich and power third. Moral, values, discipline are draining down rapidly. It is to remind that wealth or living conditions are not the premium requirement to form a great nation, the individuals are (or the individual personal values).
The middle class of a nation, even the term has a financial meaning, reflects generally most of its good values. Those are people who work to have a good life without aiming at the moon by any mean possible. It's an acceptable fact that you cannot go to the top by being a good guy or stay at the bottom forever simply because of bad luck or context. Unfortunately, these people are not valorized and mostly serve the purpose of the opposite poles: contribute to feed the bottom and the tops at the same time. We have handsome or beautiful mug shots to make the headlines. It takes a rich and celebrity gigantic butt to compete. Of course, we also have athletes, the roles models before they get caught or politicians who laugh at the rest and we only know how bad they truly are way later in history reviews, memories or books.
It's also a fact that crooks prefer living in a good environnement (less of their own kind) because they feel safer. They want theirs cakes and eat them. The problem is that the risk they will spread out their behavior to corrupt the place is higher than the chance they will redeem themselves.
The world is not fair is an old saying to remind the imperfection of human kind is more relevant than ever but it's used today as a motivation to do everything possible to avoid being on the lesser side. Don't try to make it fair, it's impossible, try to be on the heavier side of the balance. It's a race. The winner takes it all.
People who can't understand the relation of this 'found the phone' story and this wannabe righteous message need simply replace the principal action by anything you can find on the news and everyday lives which go against basic moral principle but not illegal or not passable in a justice system then realize that those basic actions dominate our lives and cause what exactly we call an 'unfair' world. It benefits exactly the much fewer people who are on the 'right' side of the results.
Being fair sounds so simple but impossible at the same time.
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