That's not the same. You didn't speculate one way or the other about someone else's job.
But I didn't think it was the right thing to do to just use this place as my fall back if what I truly wanted didn't pan out. I know this isn't comparing apples to apples, but I think we forget honesty really makes things simple.
No, but I wasn't the only one bidding on the company either. As I said not completely apples to apples. To me it is just more black and white, either you are staying with your current job and you say so or you want to go a different route and you say so.