Ethical: Samaritan Transboundary Movement, Continued

This is a follow up to the "Ethical Samaritan" post.  I continue to think, as a former regulator, about how the identification of movement is attractive as a target.

• Value:  e.g. $100 bill
• Movement:  Discard, collection, or transfer of title
• Release / pollution

In the "Samaritan" example, I used littering, a.k.a. primitive disposal, to define discard, and used a $100 bill as  an example of something of unquestionable value (beyond "tested working").   At the risk of sounding like a freshman philosophy student, I used the excercise to distinguish between "waste" declarations based separately on VALUE, TRANSIT, and "TOXICITY".   That post and this one will probably be more interesting to Ph.D students than ordinary policy makers, but I believe that this kind of exercise can pay dividends in creating fair laws.

Continuing from yesterday's post, we can all agree when a $100 bill has been "discarded", "become waste", "littered" ... it's pretty obvious, and involves intent and the level of care a person takes in getting the item of value into the hands of someone who will use it for its original intended purpose.  The case against calling it littering is only "muddied" by the donor's failure to make direct contact with the girl in the slum.