You want this to be a simple moral issue JB, and try as I might, I can't get you to see that morality is more complex than right versus wrong, and it is context-dependent. I am not advocating immorality, you do not get off that quick. Think about it a little while, go back to my watch store analogy and mull it over and consider the context- it' s a watch buying transaction, a business transaction, not a sworn statement in front of god and judge. Can you seriously say that you would have emptied your pockets to avoid answering the clerk with a lie? Really? What if you had more than the watch was priced for in your pockets, would you advise the clerk about all that money and hand that over too? No, you would not. Can we at least agree on that? I still suspect you don't get the analogy, or maybe you simply do not wish to yield anything to me. That's fine, but I think you have some thinking to do.

As for the facts I presented about warning letters, you did not refute them to any satisfactory degree.