Stiffler_from_Denver wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 5:08 pm Is there any universe where that is acceptable?
I'm kind of in this camp as well. If you're leaving a fiddy or hundo for a 6 pack then I kind of feel like, while still super uncool and not something I would ever do or condone, it becomes reasonably acceptable. If we're talking Hamilton or even Jackson.... that ain't it at all fam.
The old "everything is for sale at the right price" while not actually bearing any intellectual ethical weight, might be worth considering. If they're leaving $1000... my guess is this post doesn't exist.
Another thing worth considering - stuff like this happens all the time and people don't come back for the beer. Personally, I don't really think it's worth it to leave items unattended in the wilderness for any amount of time regardless of prompt intention to retrieve said item, even (especially?) if said item is beer. Like (I think) Roach said "Don't leave your lunch"
So IDK is it bad taste to steal the beer? Yeah, but I've seen a ton of beer in the wilderness that I'm sure was "stashed" with the intention of being retrieved, then self-evidently abandoned. So the thief could be sick of seeing that, and wondering the same (if it was abandoned). Considering the ambiguity of whether it was stashed or just straight up litter, they figured it could be resolved by a little cash, and took the moral grey area route.
Say the beer were just left to be abandoned, a bag full of cash is a lesser form of litter than a large quantity of unopened beer. Plastic baggie be darned but cash is reasonably biodegradable (at least compared to beer cans)
Perhaps if you intend to stash beer leave a note saying "hiking chicago basin, will return 7/24" or whatever, so they know it wasn't abandoned. And yes, I've seen full 6-packs of abandoned beer on mountains multiple times before.