[gruez]

In your scenario the illegal parts would be:

1. claiming insurance on it. AFAIK this isn't applicable in the case of the movie

2. endangering other houses by doing it in a non-approved way

Other than that setting houses that you own on fire isn't illegal.

[ok_dad]

And why should a studio be allowed to claim a movie they destroyed on taxes again? I’m not interested in the answer, “it’s legal,” because a lot of things are legal that should be illegal and vice versa, I’m looking for your moral reasoning here as to why this shouldn’t be made illegal.

[gruez]

>I’m looking for your moral reasoning here as to why this shouldn’t be made illegal.

If you read the thread more carefully, you'll see I never made such a claim. The only claim I made is that it's not fraud. I thought this was pretty clear with my earlier comment:

> "fraud" doesn't mean "losing money in a manner I don't like", so I ask again: where's the deception here?

[ok_dad]

The deception is that normal people won’t expect you can destroy your own property and claim insurance without being put in the clink.