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Originally Posted by Peaches
Why isn't the coast guard picking the stuff up or at least guarding it? If the cat food washes up 10 years from now, do the same ethical rules apply?
(just playing devil's advocate - I'm such a wuss I probably wouldn't even pick up a $100 bill on the floor)
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they are apparently putting 'coast guard aware' stickers on things ..which to anyone in the UK is funny because when there is a abandoned car it usually get a 'police aware' sticker on it and then it sits there for a month.
as far as your other line..I guess I see it as if people were looting a burning store rather than walking onto a lot that has been abandoned for years ..I still wouldn't take anything in any case but in the first situation it feels like you are directly profiting from the immediate hurt of another person/group.