No I am stuck on how decent people would act. Has nothing to do with feelings, personal responsibility, fule of law or constractual oblications(which you don’t seem to know anyway) legal liabilities(which you also don’t know about).
Yes it’s the same thing you can try to say it’s not but so far you haven’t come up with a good reason why it’s not. You have just tried to invent things to say why. Reality doesn’t work like this.
I wonder where your decency is but then I just know what kind of people you defend and see it’s moot.
That's how science works.