If you throw something away, is it yours?

[color="#cc8899"]Just a simple question. A simple question that has confounded me to no end - people that throw something away, only to get pissed off when someone else takes it. What do you think?

Edit - the main thing you'll see this happen with involves notepassing in grade school. Could theoretically be applied to adoption, but throwing away is a harsh term to use in that situation. More like - you admitted you can't care for the child, is it still right for you to want to be in his/her life. Perfectly reasonable to have differing answers for different scenarios.[/COLOR]

Well. If you are looking at the adoption thing, Sometimes the person getting rid of the child isn't just getting rid of it because they don't want it. Sometimes it's if they can take care of it or not, and if they can't they give it up for adoption but still want to be in the kids life. I mean hey. If I was to have a kid now, I don't really know if I could take care of it. Sure I would try, but seriously. A lot of people are having trouble nowadays. So I think adoption is not a child being "thrown away". But that's my own opinion, and probably horribly worded. xd.