Robin writes

"A professional beekeeper who needs to feed his family may
justly take more from his bees than a hobby beekeeper living comfortably on
a secure pension.  But there will always be a limit - and the possibility
of
greed is always with us."

Robin clarifies his previous post where it seemed he felt people who feed
their bees sugar are the moral equivelants of child abusers. Now he
seemingly writes that the morality of taking honey from bees is based on
the income of the plunderer. Specifically, if a man needs to take honey
from bees he is just in doing so if he feels he needs the honey to feed
his family, but a wealthier person is acting immorally if he take the same
amount of honey.

My question is, if the possibility of greed is always with us, and

"And note it is by definition a relative term"

Then who is qualified to pass judgement on whether or not we are acting in

"a rapacious desire for more than one needs or
deserves, of food, wealth or power" ?

Are there any volunteers?

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