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He also stripped every tree out of his 7.5 acre yard and put up a stockade fence around it, much to his neighbors' chagrin. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/30/u

• pyre 15y ago
  > In recent weeks, Mr. T, reportedly suffering from > allergies, has already cut down more than a hundred > of the oak trees on his English Tudor estate here, > violating an unwritten code of esthetics in this > picturesque town along the shore of Lake Michigan. So it's immoral to cut down a bunch of trees on your property that are causing you allergies? Sorry, but I don't equate home owner's association-type rules (an 'unwritten' ones at that) with morality. This is just a bunch of rich people complaining about the height of 'first world problems.'
  • jasonlotito 15y ago
    Not sure where it mentions morality, but judging by the text you quoted, and your response, I'm assuming you misread esthetics as ethics. If not, just let me know. Just confused by your remark is all.
    • pyre 15y ago
      I didn't misread that. I was confused as to the response to Mr. T shows that you can be cool and have morals with Mr. T cut down a bunch of trees and pissed off some prissy rich people back in 1987