One should be responsible for one's own actions. But also, one should not spend his life looking for where one might get conned, for this is not optimal for life as man-qua-man in a division-of-labor society.
So, IMHO, I think it is a clear lack of good taste and debasing oneself to resort to those techniques.
It implies that you are in the business of trapping as many suckers as you can instead of supplying a product that people really wants.
It also means that you're expanding efforts toward that mentality instead of expanding efforts toward making a better product.
In a sense, it is some deep confession of feelings of inadequacy in one's elected trade.
The golden rule of criminal law is "do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you".
The golden rule of human harmony is "do unto others as you would have done unto you".
Warriors, e.g. people living off other people's productive abilities, might differ on opinion about this last one.
People living off their own productive abilities will tend to agree, for the least snags one gets in life, the more time is left for the pursuit of happiness. In a division of labor social structure, I don't find it in my best interest to be overly sharp with my neighboor.
My 2¢ of the day...
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