The unintended piper message may be that you shouldn't cheat in business, but not because honest dealing is a virtue, but because if you cheat people they may seek disproportionate revenge. In a watered down version, it's not actually a bad moral to say that honesty is a virtue, but it's also a practical approach to life since you don't want to make enemies. And after all, aren't millions of people taught that the main reason to be virtuous is to avoid burning in hell for all eternity? Isn't God the piper who insists on being paid?
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