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Originally Posted by BV
Now that you admit to knowing you are not being billed and are aware, sounds like theft of services to me, at the very least i would start paying asap so when they do figure it out you wont have one huge bill due.
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Correct. It's stealing.
As for rationalizations, it's worth pointing out that comparisons of pirating movies or whatever are not the same at all. What purported harm someone theoretically causes and nameless, faceless corporate behemoth is not the same in terms of how this situation is processed on a neurological or psychological level. The primary difference is personally entering into a contract with another individual, agreeing with that individual that if he does X, you'll pay Y, shaking hands and walking away with a contract in place. He then fulfills his end of the contract and he other party rationalizes that for no reason relating to performance or his proposer fulfillment of his obligations, that he is not going to pay... fulfilling his end of the obligation.
There is also a massive difference in terms of neurology in how we process stealing from someone we don't know and don't see and where no one will know and from someone we do know and have personal contact with.
This behavior is one that is shunned by others instinctively as we have evolved to react harshly to what evolutionists calls "free riders"... I.e. Those that unfairly take from the group, offering less or nothing in return. All successful species on the planet have successfully dealt with his problem. Ours is wired into our brains and our behavior
Believe it or not, we are born with the fundamental framework for morality hard wired into our brains. A sense of right and wrong, to help those in distress, to act fairly, to expect fairness, that those who violate these basic rules are to be shunned and punished and so on. This has been extensively tested in infants for decades now. So when someone says "hey, I've decided not to live up to my end of the deal" for no real reason, it's a very safe assumption that something is miswired in their brain and with how they are processing these scenarios and understanding their own obligations and more importantly, it is a red flag as it is a question likely asked by a narccisstic or sociopathic personality to see how normal people would react.... being that they are incapable of processing moral questions based on a personal sense of obligation, fairness and doing what's right as those concepts and emotional responses don't exist In their mental processes which guide much of our behavior.