[pct-l] Charging in town

[Dennis Washer]

Bravo! Well said! Unfortunately, this is the same mentality all over our country, being passed on to the next generations, much to our detriment as a nation. It's time we stood up for what is right! Thank you for that refreshing thought!

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> On Jan 28, 2016, at 11:19 PM, Luce Cruz <lucecruz13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Jay Bruins <jbruins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Just so we’re clear, the cost to charge a modern phone is peanuts:
>> http://blog.opower.com/2014/09/iphone-6-charging-47-cents/
>> 
>> $0.47/365days * 4 days between towns = $0.0051 per town*. This is no more
>> “theft” than finding a penny on the ground and taking it with you.
> 
> 
> That is a very weak analogy.
> http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/weak-analogy/
> The difference is so clear it doesn't even deserve reasoning out, but the
> penny that someone could have likely willfully thrown on the ground in
> order to be rid of it is much different than the electricity that must be
> paid for, every single little watt.
> 
> Sure, your own little device might not amount to much, but if a quarter of
> the herd did so, at your purported $0.0051/town, and the number of people
> stealing the electricity was in the number of say 500, you now have a total
> of $2.55. If more than 500 do this, say, double the amount, than it totals
> $5.10. Where is the limit before the person that has to pay for the
> electricity is allowed to become upset over this theft in your mind? When
> does the owner or financially responsible party get to be victimized by
> this? $5? $10? $10.01?
> 
> This is why these matters are not up to you.
> 
> Theft is theft, no matter what it is. That anyone would argue that it is a
> meaningless thing is despicable. When all the trail angels and things that
> were considered "free" without being explicitly free are gone, we will know
> exactly how that came to be. We can blame the same mentality that says that
> catching more than the possession limit while fishing isn't hurting anyone,
> or that taking a roll of TP out of a bathroom doesn't really cost a
> business or trail angel that much. "Restroom is for customers only" means
> precisely that, that paying customers are helping to shoulder the burden of
> water, electricity, cleaning, maintenance, and repairs.
> 
> It might cost us all plenty in the long run. Ask Andrea Dinsmore. That is a
> fine example of what happens when someone has had enough of this selfish
> mentality. And she is not alone. There may be no telling how many may have
> offered kindness in the past and decided that entitlement mentality wasn't
> worth dealing with any longer?
> 
> If you steal, no matter how small the item in value, even if only
> "peanuts", you are a thief. Trying to tell me it's no big deal will say
> volumes about you and will do nothing to change anyone's mind about it.
> 
> This is my final word on the matter for the season unless this becomes a
> glaring problem a few months from now.
> -- 
> Luce Cruz
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