Originally Posted By: ireckon
In this case, this guy's contribution to the people around him was stealing their stuff. His net contribution to the world is less than zero.

That is very well put.

To do what he did for twenty-seven years, he had to have skills. With his skills, how likely could he have lived off of discarded items to build a shelter and improvised hunting and fishing equipment? Instead of stealing, he could have made a contribution by making something of what others throw away.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday