Just when you think you have plumbed the darkest depths of the nation's moral decline, someone comes up with something like this. I weep for my country.

Well, I'm not sure that it's really unethical to not break up the pieces, but it certainly seems to miss the point, unless your only goal is simply to complete the puzzle as quickly as possible. And I've never seen a puzzle that was really worth the end result. With a jigsaw puzzle, isn't the journey the destination?