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"Legal" does not necessarily = "Right". So forget about what's legal and just do what's right. You are in a unique time and place in history (as evidenced by
by edw519 13y ago
"Legal" does not necessarily = "Right".
So forget about what's legal and just do what's right.
You are in a unique time and place in history (as evidenced by your presence here) to build something out of nothing and provide great value to others. So why don't you just forget about what you found and instead spend your precious energy building something?
As for the documents, either return them or destroy them and please move on. For everyone's sake.
- smalter 13y agoit's not obvious that trading on material, non-public information that you overheard is unethical. it's basically the same thing as winning the lottery, and i wouldn't not cash in lottery winnings because i have the opportunity to build something of great value to others (that's neither here nor there). it's not even obvious that insider trading should be illegal (http://business.time.com/2013/07/26/why-is-insider-trading-even-illegal/ http://business.time.com/2013/07/26/why-is-insider-trading-e...). (not particularly relevant, but i do think certain types of insider trading should definitely be illegal but the scope is debatable.)