Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
A better way would be to do what most people do: recognize that this world is at times tough, it's not always fair, and there's a whole lot of people out there that are either incompetent or no good...ready to take advantage of others however they can. Then, just let it go. You deal with ten's of thousands of dollars when you play poker. 20 bucks lost via other people's stupidity should be inconsequential.
I don't like rewarding stealing, scamming, or incompetence.
It's the principle of the matter.
Those who say "It's just $20, who cares?" interestingly always refuse to give me the $20 out of their wallet to solve it. For some reason $20 is supposed to matter to them, but not me.