[peterfield]

"MacAskill, however, could find nothing wrong with it." "When he met friends at the pub, he ordered only a glass of water, which he then refilled with a can of two-per-cent lager he’d bought on the corner"

Well, in the second case he could not find anything wrong with his own behavior (using deceit to defraud the pub owner of using his facility), so I won't put much value in his first finding or lack thereof.

[NateEag]

Whether his behavior at the pub was immoral is unrelated to whether his reasoning on another moral question is correct.

[ZeroGravitas]

Well he was going to give his own money away, and in an effective manner which the landlord probably wasn't so maybe there's a Robin Hood angle on stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.