Response (NoHN)

This is a response to this.

 "Someone offers to do the paper for the group project, the whole group agrees, and then every benefits from one person's A work.  Someone offers to pay for your coffee from behind you in line, you get a free coffee."

I'm not sure if this is the same thing as being a free-loader. I looked up the definition, and it seems to me as if there are two different types of a free-loader. The type who takes advantage of generosity and the other that mooches off of the hard work of others. Although I don't think that taking advantage of the good will of others makes one a free-loader, i'm starting to think that the only reason I think that is because the term free-loader has become such a negative one in society. If a free loader is somebody who simply takes advantage of the things around them then, as you said in your post, we're all free-loaders but in varying severity.