Mary Fisher wrote:

It disgusts me too.

Quick write to the daily mail!

I'll leave that to you. We don't read newspapers.

Who said anything about reading them? You can still write "Disgusted of
Leeds". (the Daily Mail hardly fits the profile of a newspaper anyway).

Minor point, but what was being discussed here was a thought experiment,
not a real practical one. Are you outraged at thought crime now? There is
nothing immoral about thinking through or debating the possible outcomes
and implications of various actions, even if would be immoral to actually
carry them out.

Some of us think that there is.

Slippery slope don't you think?

It seems rather ironic that one can be so outraged at the prospect of
someone defrauding a water company/meter when by the nature of its design
any owner of such a beast has no choice but to also be guilty of the same
"offence". Its especially ironic when the vast majority of the "theft" of
water is being carried out by the distribution pipework in the first
place, long before it reaches any meters. You are paying for that as well.
Finally your logic seems to imply that someone with a float valve cistern
in their house is behaving morally, but only when on a flat "water rate",
but suddenly their behaviour becomes immoral should they opt to have a
meter installed. But only then if they know that there meter under-reads
on low flow rates. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

Who on Earth has said all that? You seem to think that you know what's in
people's minds. You don't.

It seems that you did by implication. You claimed to be disgusted in
response to a posting that observed that a meter did not register low
flow rates which then postulated whether this behaviour could be used to
advantage.

Perhaps there was some other aspect that you were disgusted by that was
not as immediately obvious. In which case please enlighten me.

So if you have a water meter fitted, you now know that it is allowing you
un-metered water under certain flow rate conditions. So *you* are also
guilty of this same crime as the OP. Are you suitably disgusted with your
own behaviour?

That's a very silly argument.

It is? even though you know you are defrauding the water company of some
of their income?


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Cheers,

John.

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