No, I wasn't saying that.
Like other posters, I was trying to make TRL feel better about the decision he has taken.
People can have as alternative a lifestyle as they want. Personally, I admire greatly those who don't stick to the mainstream route, as it takes guts to escape the consumerist trap most of us are caught up in.
But once that lifestyle becomes dependent on others without offering something back in return, then one is not being "alternative", one is using other people.
Freedom costs; expecting others to pick up the tab is not the action of anyone other than a user. Many of us have been more in the debit side in early years, then realised the error of our ways and taken up our load.
( I_Was_Mordred, Wed 28 May 2008, 1:02, Reply)