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RE: It's interesting to see this..
Ethical norms do not always hold up.
1. If Ethical norms do not hold up, then they're not 'norms'. You can't say it's not unethical to do 'X' if 'Y' condition exists. That's ethical relativism, and you might as throw ethics out the windows. The consequences of an action are irrelevant--it's the action itself that determines ethical/unethical behavior.
2. A lack of absolutes is exactly why we have drive-by shootings. We're teaching our children than ethics apply differently to different situations; and that's just pure garbage. Drive-by's happen merely because someone 'disrespected' another person--and the shooting is considered to be a perfectly ethical reaction given the circumstance.
The belief that ethics are relative (or situational) is the true slippery slope.
As to your smoking comment, actually there is proof; there is an excerpt here that references the conclusion of a study here that you have pay to read.
As to the 'consequences' of using someone's wireless--you're using bandwidth aren't you? depriving them of the full use of what they have paid for--just as in taking the car.
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