So, I get the whole 'it's okay if I break a rule because I understand the SPIRIT of why that rule was made and I'm not violating that spirit' mindset.
As an analogy, I'm an urbexer RL, meaning I recreationally and knowingly break the law, trespassing into whatever abandoned structures I can find a way to wriggle into. I don't spray-paint, leave trash, or steal artifacts - I don't even go inside if I can't figure out how to enter without causing new damage. Neither do I have any intention to sue if I get my dumb ass injured. Those are the kind of behaviors the laws I am breaking exist to prevent, so my conscience doesn't have a problem.
However, if I were to get caught - I don't expect anyone to be telepathic. Nobody has any reason to trust that my motives are purely 'I want to take cool pictures and dreamily reflect upon entropy'. So if I ever do get in actual trouble over this, well, them's the breaks.
Similarly, if you are opposed to people creating extra accounts for an economic advantage - do you think the FR team has the time or resources to monitor every 'ethical multi-accounter' to make sure that's not what's happening? Would you want to put that burden on them? A one human=one account rule is much simpler to enforce. Of course they're still not catching everybody that way, and sadly there are probably some false positives too, but there's never going to be a perfect compromise between allowing cheaters to create infinite accounts for free stuff and requiring you to use your social security number to sign up.
There's certainly an argument/suggestion to be made for official 'sub-accounts' that are locked out of dailies/freebies, can't access flight forums, etc, but until that functionality is implemented, all you can create is another full-fledged account, and anonymously pinky-swearing that you won't abuse it isn't particularly reassuring.
Multi-ing for the aesthetic
So, I get the whole 'it's okay if I break a rule because I understand the SPIRIT of why that rule was made and I'm not violating that spirit' mindset.
As an analogy, I'm an urbexer RL, meaning I recreationally and knowingly break the law, trespassing into whatever abandoned structures I can find a way to wriggle into. I don't spray-paint, leave trash, or steal artifacts - I don't even go inside if I can't figure out how to enter without causing new damage. Neither do I have any intention to sue if I get my dumb ass injured. Those are the kind of behaviors the laws I am breaking exist to prevent, so my conscience doesn't have a problem.
However, if I were to get caught - I don't expect anyone to be telepathic. Nobody has any reason to trust that my motives are purely 'I want to take cool pictures and dreamily reflect upon entropy'. So if I ever do get in actual trouble over this, well, them's the breaks.
Similarly, if you are opposed to people creating extra accounts for an economic advantage - do you think the FR team has the time or resources to monitor every 'ethical multi-accounter' to make sure that's not what's happening? Would you want to put that burden on them? A one human=one account rule is much simpler to enforce. Of course they're still not catching everybody that way, and sadly there are probably some false positives too, but there's never going to be a perfect compromise between allowing cheaters to create infinite accounts for free stuff and requiring you to use your social security number to sign up.
There's certainly an argument/suggestion to be made for official 'sub-accounts' that are locked out of dailies/freebies, can't access flight forums, etc, but until that functionality is implemented, all you can create is another full-fledged account, and anonymously pinky-swearing that you won't abuse it isn't particularly reassuring.