Dangerous reasoning my friend, though there is a point to what you say ... thought just strikes me, there is anime callex Last Exile that deals with this, water becoming a luxury ... anyway, I get your implication, if you can visit Universal you are not down the dumps, if you can afford Universal you can afford water ... but such thought is dangerous and rather unhealthy (in my opinion) ...
If water is still available what's the reason for eliminating it at these machines? The issue isn't about getting something free but rather just inconveniencing people for no reason?
Therein lies the danger, it is the line of thinking ... just go ask for the free water, basically the thought is: beg; and why, so that a select few don't get inconvenienced. What does this teach?
Umm if you don't drink water you will die. That falls into the necessity category for me.
You do realize it's a legal requirement for them to have water fountains right. Water fountains are filtered too.
Exactly. That is what I dislike, the priviliged attitude in which we trap ourselves. I think a lot of people are either trapped in that whole business and profits first mindset or they really need to think a little deeper ethically about this. I am not outraged over this personally, in the parks I generally pay for a coke, I just wish to instill that this is is a sensitive issue.
Indeed. And some suggest people getting free water are parasites. If it is free, then how does this follow? If the free water was a machine error, then why is it gone for paying customers? I have always disliked that there is no sparkling water, just normal non-flavored sparkling water.
That's exactly what I do all the time. Now tell me when I use the Freestyle machine how can I rinse my cup out?
Yeah well my point is as a someone who uses these machines occasionally for their intended purpose this change makes it inconvenient for me to use for soda.I don't know. I'm not a Coke Freestyle machine expert. What do I look like, Derek Burgan?
I mean coke can't charge for the water because they are not paying for it, so they cannot have water for paying customers only, because the water supply is not theirs,
I don't really think that is the case. They would essentially be charging for the filtering. Just like they charge for the filtering and flavoring when you buy a Coke product from the machine. Either way they're still using the same water. I think the issue is the way Coke has the machines set up water is separate from the drink selections and so there isn't a way to charge for it or in other words block it if you don't have a chip.
Lol ... there are people who think the free water option was really dasani and that is why they stopped it. I agree, municipal water here is bad, strong chlorine and metal taste. I always drink seltzer water and for my beer brewing I buy gallons of filtered water.
