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Doesn't that counter argument amount to "but it's easy, and tempting"?

• seiji 16y ago
  Exactly right. Let's jump further in to not-quite-isomorphic-analogy land. Consider banks not having vaults and instead leaving their money sitting out in the open. It would be easy and tempting to swipe some. Doing so may be "wrong" technically, but by the availability and lack of security, one can presume the banks are aware of the risks and can tolerate some shrink. I would argue it's not wrong if they put no security in place, it's in a public place, and no person is denied a resource by your act of accessing the public resource with no security.
  • warfangle 16y ago
    To take it a liiiittle further: Like a bank whose tellers (a gatekeeping mechanism) will give you however much money you ask for as long as you end your sentence with "swordfish" - they just don't tell anyone about swordfish.