Rex Murphy takes up for our local hero

Thank you sir and I am sure, if someone would take the trouble to tell David Chen about this, he would thank you too.

.....He wasn’t only stealing the value, you see. He was stealing the labour. He was stealing the honest work of a man willing to work. He was mangling the idea of neighbour as well. The man who’d steal another man’s store of firewood was lazy, miserable, vile, useless and universally despised. It was about as low as you were allowed to get back then......