19 Mar
2007
19 Mar
'07
5:43 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Rod Smallwood wrote:
This is the old 'Apple Box' issue:
If you have surplus apples and put a box with 'Please take one' by your
gate
is that different to a box with 'Help yourself on it'
I have a lemon tree in front of my house.
My neighbors are welcome to 'take one' when they want.
But if they take enough to make a pie, it would be nice if they gave me a
slice, or a glass of lemonade, or a shot of tequila, . . .
And, when somebody whom I've never seen before pulls up in a pickup
and 6 people strip everything off of the tree, . . .
OK, it's a flawed analogy.
Let's comply with the explicit and implicit terms when somebody makes
something available.