Dioclese wrote:

Lazy people will leave them where they land. Slightly less lazy
people will run over them with a lawn mower. People that want
healthy lawn and trees will bag them and get them the hell outa
there.

The premise (which I think is not valid) is that all people are
under the notion that removing the leaves is the best solution
for a healthy and green lawn and rees.

The corollary to your point would then be that people that do not bag
their leaves are under the solid notion that leaving them on the ground
*is better*. There might be some of those, but I don't think it applies
to the majority of "non-baggers".

I happen to believe that those that don't rake them are lazy and it
probably shows in other ways that they take care of their grounds and
property all year round. Maybe they're physically incapable of raking
and bagging - but in those cases they are presumably paying for yard
maintainence - or they are on the eve of moving out of their home and
into an apartment or managed care facility.

Our city stopped collecting bagged grass during regular weekly garbage
pickup about 10 years ago. Ever since then, if you bag your grass, you
either compost it on your own propery, or you drop it at specified
depots and pay $1 a bag. By osmosis, every land-owner has come to
understand that the correct (or at least the politically-correct) thing
to do with cut grass is to leave it on the lawn.

Our city has been collecting bagged leaves in the fall for as long as I
can remember, and they still do. By osmosis, every residential
land-owner is aware that raking and bagging leaves is the "natural"
thing to do and is supported by a service provided by the city. The
big-box stores now have over-sized leaf rakes and leaf bags (paper and
clear plastic) visible front and center when you enter, further
reinforcing the concept that raking and bagging leaves is normal or
natural, if not a beneficial part of turf and property management.

Therefore (based on the premise), for everyone anything less
than that is an exhibition of some degree of laziness toward
that solution.

Yes, because as I've described, there are public "cues" that point to
leaf raking and bagging as something that's a normal, if not expected
part of property management.

As well, leaves that accumulate in the gutters and curbs of residential
streets are a public nuisance that impedes the dissapation of rain and
snow melt until the city cleans them in the spring. Those that rake
their leaves onto the road or allow their leaves to collect are
negligent and lazy in that regard.

If you had said, in my opinion (state premise). Therefore, in my
opinion (state conclusion). There's no room to disagree, its your
opinion.

It's my opinion that (most, many, or all) people would like to have an
extra $10 in their pocket right now. Is that an opinion, or fact? Can
an opinion never be shown to also be a fact?