thanks for the input man, half the people on here hating on me have mommy and daddy to buy them whatever they want, and the other half are just full of shit and would totally keep it.
christ you're fucking disconnected from reality. you know there are a lot of people in this life that actually do try treating others in a manner consistent with how they would like to be treated. i guess by doing this then you have no problem with people stealing your shit if you aren't there at JUST THAT MOMENT to claim it.
the difference between stealing here is that i did try to give it back. if it was one of my classmates they would have it now. my FIRST instinct was to see who it belonged to.
bullshit. a decent person would have just left it there for when the person would come back for it, which they most likely would have done if it was worth stealing to begin with. or maybe you could have left it for the professor to figure out what to do with it. this isn't some situation where you found something in the middle of nowhere, where the person definitely isn't coming back for it. it's a classroom, and the owner is overwhelmingly likely to be coming back.
if getting the device back into the hands of the owner was your priority you WOULD NOT have taken it. it's pretty disgusting that you can pretend otherwise.
Also if someone does come looking for it, i'm going to give it back to them. im not a fucking cat burglar.
what? you already took it and gave it away. you didn't care if the person was coming back later that day or the next day for it, and simply decided it was yours because the person wasn't there at just that moment. that it wasn't premeditated doesn't make a whole lot of difference, as the outcome is the same.