What will you do...?

What will you if you see someone shoplift something in a shop? It maybe a very small thing like a magazine or something expensive like a wallet. Will you go and tell the shopkeeper / security about what you saw? Or will you go up to that shoplifter and tell him / her that "Hey I think you took something that is not yours. You better put the thing back or I'll call the police or tell the shopkeeper...

I was faced with the dilema to tell or not to tell today. I think I saw this man went n took a copy of a newspapers (yes, you din see wrongly. it's really newspapers) from the rack outside the 7-Eleven in Causeway Point and left without paying.

I have the strong urge to go n confront the man but I dare not because I started doubting myself whether I saw wrongly. Maybe that man bought the papers from the stall at the MRT station and he was just walking too close to the rack in 7-Eleven. Yet I was certain that my eyes did not play tricks on me.

Some people may say that "ai ya... it's only a $0.70 newspapers. He want take then take lah... What for kick up a big fuss?" To me it's something else called morality. Kind of weird hearing me talk about morality rite? Dunno y leh... I just feel that shoplifting is a no no kind of thing no matter how expensive the thing is. What if his children sees what he does n decides to follow suit? A lot of times kids commit crime because of the "good" examples that their parents show making them feel that it's alright to do so. This makes me wonder if parents r really showing a good example to their children.