Weren't you complaining in a different thread about a person using multiple EBT cards to pay for groceries (ie, 'cheating the system'), and yet here you are admitting to much worse and much more serious cheating. Interesting.
Ya, no justification for it. Period. That said, :-)
I didn't steal taxpayer money.
The school district drew an arbitrary line, on this side you go to school A, on the side you go to school B. I* chose to say I lived on the other side of the line.
As to my daughter starting school early, again, an arbitrary line, if your birthday is on this side of the line, you wait until next year, if it's on the other side you start now.
We had here tested, it we were told she is way ready start school.
We started her early. Her kindergarten teacher told us one day, that my daughter told her, "from now on I'm keeping everything I know under a sheet" It was at that point the teacher realized how much she was relying on my daughter to help other students. A lot of this was teaching the other kids how to use the computer programs. The teacher said she backed off.
It all worked out very well, she graduated HS. 4th in a class of 400+, a year early.
She now has 2 BS degrees, working on a Masters, and has an interview at a dental college the day after tomorrow.
Zero guilt. Also don't agree with your cheating scale, if you really want to make a cheating scale :-)
*the truth is, I would have never have made this decision. I'm a rule follower whether it be regulatory or social. I consider it a bit of a fault of mine. Even on my mothers deathbed, we were discussing some financial manipulation** thing, and I said, "I didn't think it was right to do that", and she said, you always were my honest child, I was 57 at the time.
My wife came from a different country and rules are not good things. We have constant irritations, usually because she is doing something I wouldn't.
The communists imposed rules, the capitalists hated those rules. I suppose that is where a lot of her attitude about authority comes from. You could not save money, because the government changed the currency often and you could only exchange a fixed amount. Then the old currency was worthless.
Also, negotiating over price, you have a product for sale, some people pay $4 others pay $9, because they don't negotiate. Most sales here are fixed price. (stores) I think being raised with the mentality that the price is whatever you can get someone else to pay, has an effect on everyday life.
It doesn't seem to be immoral to get more money from one person than the next one for exactly the same thing.
**Being self employed we can split the business income 50/50 or 100% to one. All SS tax are paid into one account and the payout is much larger. Then the spouse gets 50% of the wage earners
benefit, but never paid in. (at least that's how I understood it then)
This is when I said, "I didn't think it was right to do that", and she said, you always were my honest child.
btw, my accountant does this. It's legal, is it moral?