Food

The manager has a point though. If you get to decide how many cookies to make and you know that if you decide to make too many cookies then you get the extra ones for free, well, then you'd be more principled than most people if you never gave in to the temptation (conscious or subconscious) to make too many.

I'm in a weird position myself, because I know someone at a food bank who brings me expired food that the food bank would otherwise throw away. The local grocery store donates that food when it's close to expiring and often the food bank can't give it all away in time. The thing is that while the people the food bank serves are not likely to be lost customers for the store, I am. I would be buying food there if I wasn't getting this free food, which is presumably why the store doesn't give expiring food away to just anyone. Technically, I'm not breaking a rule because the store doesn't explicitly require the food bank to throw away the food I'm being given, but my point is that I don't think I could be trusted to decide how many cookies to make if I got to keep the extras.