[Normille]

  > That feels more honest than stealing their gas and then not paying for it. Sure, they're probably ripping me off. Doesn't mean I should do the same.

This kind of supine attitude is why 'The Great British* Public' continues to be fucked over by their governments, year after year, decade after decade and just keeps on taking it, with barely a murmur.

Even when they're plunging a huge section of the population into abject poverty, causing thousands of elderly people to die of hypothermia over the winter, causing countless people to contemplate suicide --because they literally can't afford to heat their homes or pay their energy bills...

...you're more concerned with not 'stealing' from the energy companies --who've just made record profits again, whose shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank. And whose directors will likely see out the worst of the winter on the yachts in the Bahamas they bought with their multi-million pound annual bonuses.

[*insert other nations, as appropriate]

PS: Why has this thread been flagged. It's a damned sight more important than most of the stuff that gets submitted on here, these days.

[rconti]

The opposite of a supine attitude is, apparently, justifying any kind of aggression with "he started it" or "but someone else is doing it too!"