Yesterday I was hanging out with some friends and friends of friends at a bar. One of them noticed someone had left their sunglasses (of low quality) and proceeded to pick them up. Said person floated the idea of selling them online. I managed to get the item out of their hands. Oddly enough, I felt good taking them, since I was not going to sell them. But it was still misappropriation. I could have left them with the bartender in case its original proprietor came back looking for them.
I wonder how many of us are fooled when confronted with a few unethical choices, they feel good about themselves by picking up the least unethical. I wonder if there is a name for this cognitive bias that I clearly fell into.