Advocates of various freedoms love to point out two distinct types with examples. There's free as in "speech" and free as in "beer".
Don't forget the third type - free as in "candy, scrawled on the side of a filthy white van".
@mike I like to include: free as in “puppy”.
some countries used to allow tobacco companies to hand out free cigarettes at places where students and other young adults hung out (even as recently as the 2010s in Germany and Switzerland!)
@vfrmedia @idlestate @futzle I remember being a small kid in primary school and getting a visit from someone who told us all about how tobacco farming worked. He bought in leaves to show us what it looked like before it went into daddy's smokes! I got to take a leaf home and show my family. What a fun day!
@mike
That sounds like a good idea regardless? Showing kids how to make <foo> is IMO only bad if <foo> is a dangerous thing that they can successfully make (or unsuccessfully in a dangerous way). I don't expect any kids to make cigarettes from scratch after learning how tobacco farming works. Do you see any other reason telling kids about tobacco farming is bad? (Or do I misread your subtext?)
