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An easy opposing argument would be if they've done wage theft. Which near every large company has. Or if they've used unethical business practices (ditto)
You’re shifting the question from "what’s the right thing to do?" to "does this company deserve honesty?" - which isn’t a counterargument, it’s a dodge. The idea that the company probably committed wage theft is pure speculation, and even if true, it wouldn’t justify dishonesty in return. That’s moral relativism, not ethics. The question here is simple: do you knowingly keep money that isn’t yours? Everything else is just rationalizing what one already wants to do.
I'm responding to you asking for a purely moral stance, with a possible counter argument. I'm not suggesting to take without checking, I'm suggesting check and it's very likely they have.
It would justify not going out of your way to return money to them.
There's no such thing as morals or ethics that are not relative. Stating that has no meaning. When discussing morals, you must be willing to debate the morals foundations themselves. Are you?
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.