amok: When you penetrate the matter to the crux of it, and do not provide any smokescreens, there are two issues here:
1) HB kindly asks you to not break up a bundle.
2) GoG thinks breaking up a bundle is "unfair" and says "hog all keys"
That is the crux of it, and none of you address this at all. This has nothing to do about utilitarianism nor legalism
IAmSinistar: I confess I am not surprised by your response, but still sorry to see it thus. I am also sorry that you think my attempt at elucidation was instead obfuscation, and that I somehow seem incapable of addressing the core issue. I have done so, however at odds it is with your philosophy and your inability to entertain any course of reason that does not parallel your own. You in turn fail to address why me spending $5 on 5 bundles and giving them away is perfectly fine, but spending $5 on one bundle and giving pieces of it away is criminal. Apart, of course, from your argument of "because it says so", which is one that ceases to carry weight after about the age of 3.
If the limits of your argument, and thus your chain of reason, is predicated entirely on "it is stated this way in writing here, therefore it must be so", then there is little I can do to show you my own logic, because by your dicta it will be inescapably in error unless it dovetails entirely with your own. It is this kind of surity that makes debate with the zealot and the literalist equally fruitless.
Lastly, you yourself say that "HB asks" and "GoG thinks", neither of which are indicators of unbreakable rules, but rather take the form of requests. I am free to ignore such requests when they conflict with my ethos, without violating any actual rules. Naturally I do my best to honour reasonable requests, but I do not find the discarding of fallow resources a reasonable request. So your problem with me, and those like me, is reduced to that of either a public scold or a bitter defender, angry because others merely do not make the same choices you do.
I sincerely hope you take the time to read my words and understand them this time, rather than look for some fragment of mis-context that you can then use to simply rehash your same argument against. Because I will not engage you again like this otherwise, for reasoned discourse requires parties to be engaged in good faith on both sides.
Well done swallowing a word book, I like how you earlier accused others for "obfuscating" the issue :)
Off course no rules are unbreakable, rules are broken every day. People speed, pirate games, jailwalk, lie, cheat and so on every second of the day. It is really not an excuse. If you do not like a rule, it is always my belief you try to change it, not blatantly abuse it.
You do not like how HB does things? Stop buying from them, contact them and make them see "sense" in the same way as Groupees and Indie Gala. Vote with your valet and try to change the system. Why do you need to be dishonest and disrespectful towards them?
And still, this issue is also unresolved - GOG asks you to not do these giveaways. You say "Screw you GOG" , and make the giveaway. This is very disrespectful. If you cared an iota of GoG's core ideology - you would not do this here. I still can not understand how someone has the cheek to do this. This is, after all, GoG's own forum, one of the few places out there trying to prove that customers are decent and can be trusted. I guess GOG got this wrong *sigh*
"When in rome - I do what I bloody well like to"?
Edit 2- major edit of post :)