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Civic honesty around the globe

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209 points ojosilva | 1 comments | 20 Jun 19 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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TomMckenny ◴[21 Jun 19 01:55 UTC] No.20239213[source]▶
Remarkable finding.

And it is strange almost everyone, including myself, intuits the opposite. Where does this negative view of people come from?

In that vein, I wonder, when the desk clerk received an empty wallet, if they sometimes thought the money had already been taken and they would be blamed.

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1. jhanschoo ◴[21 Jun 19 07:27 UTC] No.20240624[source]▶
I'd posit that maybe it's transference from newsworthy cases of loss of property. In burglary cases we read about thieves stealing goods of high-value, so one reasons that the average person is more inclined to steal high-value goods. Whereas the more accurate model is perhaps that most thieves and average people would prefer to steal only what is necessary and convenient, but the value of goods that were not stolen is not reported.