How did I miss this? Thank you OP for sharing this. We all must be honest, however, I think you shouldn’t compare this with merit. Just saying.
Everyone also should notice that this guy got a lot of merit just because of his honesty but getting a lot of merit doesn’t necessarily mean to be honest. For example, theyoungmillionaile who had a lot of merit earned but a scammer. So, Don't trust anyone with a lot of merits.

Cheater : "I'll tell truth, I've participated in x campaign with my alt accounts and I broke the company rules" This cheater is so honest, so give him 190+ merits

I know honest attitude is very important in anything whether it's on real life or internet, the question is do you will be honest like that's newbies if you get money from someone accidentally send to you? Because this is not your fault, so in logic you don't need have to refund, but if you want to become good person you need to refund that since it's not your money. It's almost impossible to find such member, a newbies with no reputations have nothing to lose if he don't want to refund.

Literally all peoples already know what is honest attitude since they must be got teached in school, but can you become a honest person?

It will never happen, I know it's not the expected honesty but it is a suicide bombing when someone is too honest with the police after doing something wrong ^[cheating].  So it should never be the same. I know that everyone knows what honesty is but we really have to research to believe it with money if it is done on the internet. So would you say bounty cheaters who claim to cheat on bounty are honest people?

I know, I get a lot of evidence from these links when they deal with money. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=1883627

That's exactly what I had in my mind. It doesn't really matter if that person is a Newbie or a Legendary for what we know he might be the oldest person on the forum who just created an account and got the Newbie rank. It is mostly on how the person is from the inside. That person had a good heart which made him refund the money back.
That is a normal behavior and we shouldn't be surprised of it. In fact we should be proud that our forum still has many good people in it who are there for others in need of it.

It's hard to earn other people's trust with money, that's for sure. I have no experience of how people trust me with money. But if it's not my right, then returning it to its owner is one of the things I would do. This is normal for me. Returning something that doesn't belong to us is a gesture that deserves appreciation regardless of what your current rank is.

It's so rare to find someone like that who still has the kind of heart to return something that doesn't belong to him especially a large money. I think it's not about the rank or standing in the society that matters, if you have a kind heart you would have returned it back to rightfully owner. No need to boast if you are just a newbie or legendary since not everyone knew this forum and it's not just for BTC that has been lost that we could be thankful but for someone who could actually return something despite of this pandemic situation.

Although I don’t like praising this case too much, simply because (perhaps naively) is what I’d think most people would do, there is that added factor of the account being a Newbie, meaning by that, that he didn’t have anything on the line, and could have easily kept the Sats and started afresh, if at all.

It seems that EZ0010 made a huge impact on this community by returning a BTC mistakenly send to his address and he return it immediately.
And also he is the Idol of some users herein forum
Take a look at this
my version of honesty
MISTAKE TIP 3.8 BTC
I think there's more to be followed.

Thanks for suggesting something I should have heard earlier this year @CryptopreneurBrainboss. It's true that doing good and being honest is something that everyone should have, but if it's done just to get a reward or something else that benefits him then I'm sure sincerity is not his.

Today's best quote from you for me and others is ^{[do what you think is right and never expect anything in return].}

In my opinion, not all honesty will be rewarded with merits. There may be only certain honesty that will get it.
And for that case, yeah, he deserves the merits because that is something very big, related to money that is very much. We can say that he is a very honest person and he may only do what he can do.
However, in this case, I don't concern to the merits given and got, I concern on how honesty. And about shitposters, of course, wherever, it cannot be compared with something honesty. Honesty is an attitude, behavior of someone that is owned. But shitposts may be also created by some honest people, but not willing to learn or they only do whatever they want.
I am not sure that all honesty will be rewarded by merits once again. It will dpeend on what kind of honesty.