Literary Wankers

We were going though submission guidelines to various literary journals today, and came across this lovely bit, from a journal we will not mention:

we consider it unethical for a poet to submit the same work simultaneously

Of course, we understand that simultaneously submitting is wrong. But we must have a good chuckle that a prospective publisher would call the practice unethetical.

Indeed, this might actually hold water if literary journals responded with any bit of efficiency. But due to volume of submissions, they can't and so they don't. After two or three months, submitting a poem [or a story] some place else is fair game. After all, most journals refuse to comment on the status of submissions. So imagine a story submitted, and subsequently lost. Should the author never submit again for fear of being unethical?

We're left wondering if the good folks at this unammed journal are comparing the submission of the same poem to different journals as an equal fault to say, looting Enron, or suicide bombings in the name of God. We'd only consider the latter two "unethical."