I would posit the practice of tip toeing onto another’s property to pilfer a few apples or oranges has been in place since humans first walked the earth. So to say the responses fit todays society is a bit disingenuous. I grew up in Florida in the hay days of that states citrus groves. We would drive from Daytona Beach to Tampa several times a year. The route took us through citrus groves. It was not uncommon to stop along the way to pick a few oranges to munch on during our trip.
So it is OK to steal from a farmer? Then why not grab a few from the case at the grocery store as well? It is no different at all since both of them sell that fruit to make a living. Not only that, but picking citrus in the wrong way can damage the tree and cause less fruit the next year. This is not the same as the original question since that was not about someone's cash crop.
It doesn’t sound like much but are you sort of teaching these kids it’s OK to steal even if it’s fruit? It does belong to someone else
That's what I was taught from a young age.
We also used to take the occasional watermelon.
It didn’t lad me to a life of crime. Never been arrested. As a matter iof fact I’ve been known to drive back to a store because I was given too much change. A few weeks ago I was at Lowes purchasing mulch. I told the cashier I had 10 bags on the cart and that’s what she charged me for. After loading them in the car I realized I had eleven bags. I went back in the store and paid for the 11th bag. So your assertion that picking fruit from someone else’s tree when we are kids leads to a life of crime is unfounded. How do you like them apples!
I don’t think that’s what I said. Some will go a straight line like you but it only takes one to take that wrong path.So your assertion that picking fruit from someone else’s tree when we are kids leads to a life of crime is unfounded. How do you like them apples!
Does that make it OK? The orange groves you raided were not on bit different than taking the oranges from the grocery store. As kids, many of us did things that we should not have done and I did also but I don't boast of them today nor do I try to justify what I did. In both cases you were stealing and doing exactly the same as to shoplift.
Oh come on Kirk. Kids taking the occasional orange or apple from a neighbor’s or farmers tree is not the same as shoplifting. And there was no raiding of orange groves. One or two oranges does not a raid make. That’s just like anybody that’s worked for the government most likely has a few pens laying around their house stamped with “Property of the U.S. Government”. Or how many of us hung around a liquor store asking guys to buy us some beer. Has anybody snuck friends in the drive in movies by putting them in the trunk of cars. And nobody’s bragging about these things. It’s just a childhood where you did some daring stuff. We didn’t rape and pillage the village.
Amen. What's the value of fruit rotting on the ground?
