Please excuse my ignorance, but how is not tipping the servers considered rude ("morally equivalent to taking money out of their pockets"), and flat-out lying about the prices isn't? If I'm told one price, and am considered a thief if I pay it exactly, this is morally acceptable? I'm a bit confused here.
You're welcome to consider the 15% uplift virtually everyone in America knows is trained from adolescence to know is there is "flat out lying", but whether or not you think that has nothing to do with whether knowingly and willfully not paying it is immoral.
I'm pretty sure even in Europe they teach kids, young kids, about what two wrongs add up to.
