As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean’s century-old trees
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SPATA, Greece (AP) — In an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens, grower Konstantinos Markou pushes aside the shoots of new growth to reveal the stump of a tree — a roughly 150-year-old specimen, he said, that was among 15 cut down on his neighbor’s land by thieves eager to turn it into money.
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So anyone's who's even just a little bit better off than you is fair game? If you have a bicycle but your neighbor has two then you can freely steal his bicycle?
In a fair system the neighbor wouldn't have more than one bike if not everyone can have more than one bike.
Heck, that's the way children are raised with their siblings but as soon as we reach a certain age it's like people just forget what they taught their kids for years.
I disagree with that is what we teach kids, we actually teach them essentially the opposite. This helps them, especially when young, to understand why someone else may receive a gift (it's their birthday) but they do not.
In general, I think that you are in line with Cynicism, but I am unsure how theft fits in to that view. It seems very possible with their general adherence to having as few possessions as possible and a general disregard for shame. We need our Cynic!
Man, good luck managing your children if one of them has a bunch of stuff and the other doesn't.
Well, that's true, but that wasn't what I meant (or said I guess). What I meant is that sometimes we have to wait for gratification, even while others get something we want or need. Relevant to this thread, because the system has broken down/is built in a flawed manner (as you rightly pointed out) many folks have waited, only to never receive gratification.
I wasn't really trying to call you wrong or anything, just a minor point I guess. This is a challenging situation, I won't claim to have the right answer!
Have you ever heard the phrase "golden child"? It's sadly relatively common for a certain sort of dysfunctional family. Screws up entire lifetimes for people.