Accepted for a PhD, only want to earn a Master's

Okay then how about this answer: it’s wrong because you are literally stealing the livelihood of the professors funding your fake PhD. We don’t have unlimited money to give out, and wasting it on a student who is just jerking us around eats up resources we could better spend on a student who actually cares. If every student did what you suggested, I’d never get tenure since funding would dry up since I’d never produce anything of value.