are paid accounts moral?

I found out why I don't see tags. It's because they're only visible in the S2 style but I use the S1 style because I hate the S2 style, and I customize my Flist pages so that everyone's LJ looks like my own. When I accidentally stumble onto somebody's specially personalised S2 page, I go AACK from shock and hotfoot it out of there. *is luddite* So, I guess, that's life without tags for me.

Is a paid LJ account a morally responsible thing?
I have had a paid account in the past. I have paid for some months, I have had some months given to me. I have uploaded icons at will and enjoyed reading hundreds of my last-saved comments but ultimately the advantages were minimal. I don't use all that many icons, and these days I don't get enough tigs to need a huge, long recent-comments list. Also, I can do a poll without the clickety-clickety things, right?

The main reason I paid for the account was not because I wanted the extra modcons but because I felt it was important to support this wonderful site whose creators put their time and effort and energies into it all for free and from whose kind generosity I benefit every day. So I thought I need to support this, I will pay.

Then I had a saving-money drive (FlyLady!) and let the paid account lapse. Now I'm thinking: what is more ethical, paying for an LJ account or using the service for free?

Paying for the account means I am supporting the lovely people who are providing this exquisite service for free.

Not paying for the account means that I can use that money to pay for some other charity that is perhaps more in need of money and more worthy (?) than the evening funsite for a wage-earning, TV-earning, broadband-paying, never-gone-hungry woman in one of the richest capitalist states of the world. I never used to give money to charities but now I donate to three and plan a fourth donation round.

Is paying for LJ frivolous and morally dubious? Or is it just totally neutral and like buying yourself a chocolate bar as a treat (or renting a Sims game...)? Or is it ethically reprehensible to continue using this site for free without giving anything back?

And please, I implore you: do NOT suddenly 'give' me a paid account. I know that some people post veiled 'please pay for my account' pleas but as you can see, this is NOT that type of post!! Because a paid account (paid by someone else!) will only compound my quandary because then it will be ethically problematic that the unknown donor is not giving that money to a charity of my choice and using it to fund my frivolous online chattings.

I am serious about this!! (btw, is there a way to 'unpay' an account once it's been paid? Can the gift be refused, Trojan horse that it may be?)