I don't take kindly to thievery. This isn't about honesty, it is about theft.
You can tell a lie (be dishonest) and not cost your neighbor a penny, but you cannot steal from your neighbor's supplier without raising your neighbor's costs of buying goods.
If all you got out of my post was that I posted an "OMG CRIMINAL!!" reaction then that tells me more about you than you probably know about me.
For example I can guess what you would do if you found £10-20 left on a table at a restaurant (pocket it, it's just £10-20 after all, not very honest, sure, but certainly not criminal as you would put it in your own words).
Just like before, you tend to swiftly jump to conclusions.
The OMG CRIMINAL! bit was obviously a silly exaggeration to quickly make a point: I'm not endorsing warranty fraud, just trying to put things into perspective. OP was being honest and straightforward: the idea of purchasing the protection plan is good and morally right, so I don't think he deserved such a strong reaction because what many people don't realise is that the mere production and handling cost of a modern CPU is very low. He wouldn't be stealing a costly CPU (which has to absorb the high R&D costs that he had paid for the first time), just getting another piece of silicon.
I wholeheartedly agree with you about thievery, and getting a replacement you're not entitled to IS wrong, I'm sorry if I gave out the impression of thinking otherwise, but it has to be put into perspective, that is all. Stealing a £10 replacement (which the company has largely already accounted for) is OBVIOUSLY wrong, but it's not as wrong as actually stealing a £300 CPU.
Saying that doesn't make me a CPU thief and you shouldn't assume that I am, let alone that I would be pocketing the same amount of money out of a restaurant table - which is an entirely different matter anyway, something I would punch a face for.
There are many degrees of wrong. OP was in the right, Intel agrees and I pointed out your overreaction: nothing against you or your moral character, just sayin' things should be judged for what they are.